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Ashrafi - al-Ashraf Tumanbay II al-Qahira
| Issuer | Mamluk Sultanate |
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| Year | 1516 |
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| Currency | Dinar (1250-1517) |
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| Obverse description | Struck in the hammered tradition, the obverse bears multiple lines of bold Arabic calligraphy in the Thuluth script filling the entire field. The legend proclaims the sultan's titles and name, al-Ashraf Tumanbay, rendered in flowing raised script across the broadly irregular flan. No figural imagery is present, consistent with Islamic numismatic convention; the inscriptions serve as the sole decorative and identifying elements. The lettering is deeply struck with characteristically bold strokes, though some peripheral text is partially off-flan due to the irregularity of the hammered blank. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Tumanbay II ruled for roughly three months — from October 1516 to January 1517 — making him the last Sultan of the Mamluk Sultanate before the Ottoman conquest of Egypt. His coinage was struck at Cairo (al-Qahira) during the chaotic final collapse of Mamluk power, while Selim I's forces were advancing following their decisive victory at the Battle of Marj Dabiq in August 1516, where his predecessor Qansuh al-Ghawri died on the field. Tumanbay himself was captured and hanged at the Zuwayla Gate in Cairo in April 1517.