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2 Dirham - al-Nâsir Hasan Amida mint

Issuer Mamluk Sultanate
Year 1354-1369
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Value 2 Dirhams (1.4)
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Obverse lettering ضرب السلطان الملك الناصر خلد الله ملكه أمد
(Translation: Struck by the Sultan, King al-Nasir, may God perpetuate his reign, Amida)
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Reverse lettering لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله
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Al-Nasir Hasan ruled twice — deposed in 1351, restored in 1354, then murdered in 1361 by his own amir Yalbugha al-Umari, who had grown more powerful than the sultan himself. The Amida mint, located in southeastern Anatolia in what is now Diyarbakır, operated under Mamluk control during periods of contested influence with rival Turkmen powers in the region. That a Mamluk sultanic issue was struck this far north speaks to the administrative reach Cairo still claimed, however tenuously, during Hasan's second reign.

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