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1 Fals - Sultan Muhammad al-Mujahid
| Issuer | Sultanate of Mogadishu |
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| Year | 1350 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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| Mintage | 1350: ND (1350) |
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The Sultanate of Mogadishu reached its commercial peak in the 13th and 14th centuries, functioning as a major node in the Indian Ocean trade network connecting the East African coast to Arabia, Persia, and India. Ibn Battuta visited the city around 1331 and described it as extraordinarily wealthy, governed by a sultan whose court conducted business in the Mogadishan dialect alongside Arabic. Coinage from this polity is exceptionally rare in any form — bronze fals issues of this period survive in tiny numbers, most recovered archaeologically rather than through numismatic channels.
Album 1169 covers a tightly defined group within the Mogadishan series. The specific attribution to al-Mujahid remains dependent on die analysis, as the sultanate's chronology is still debated among specialists.