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Æ Fals - Al-Adil Sayf al-Din Abu Bakr I Concave-sided Hexagon
| Issuer | Ayyubid Sultanate of Egypt |
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| Year | 591-615 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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| Mintage | ND (591-615) |
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Al-Adil I spent much of his reign consolidating power wrested from his nephews following Saladin's death in 1193, and his copper coinage reflects the administrative confidence of a ruler who had finally, after years of regency maneuvering, secured Egypt for himself by 1200. The concave-sided hexagonal flan shape was not decorative whimsy — geometric flan forms appear across Ayyubid copper issues as a practical means of distinguishing low-denomination currency by touch and shape in busy market contexts.
Balog's corpus for this type notes considerable variation in die alignment and flan preparation across specimens.