1 Fals - Zubair ibn 'Umar

The Sultanate of Mogadishu was among the wealthiest entrepôt states on the Swahili Coast during the fifteenth century, its mint producing small bronze fulus that served the dense commercial traffic of the Indian Ocean trade network. Zubair ibn 'Umar is known from this coinage alone — no chronicle, no inscription, no traveler's account corroborates his rule, which is itself a common problem with the Mogadishu series, where numismatic evidence routinely outpaces the documentary record.