Ashrafi - Sayf ad-Din Tumanbay I

Tumanbay I ruled for under three months in 1501, a stopgap sultan installed after the death of Qansuh I and deposed almost immediately in favor of Qansuh al-Ghawri. His coinage is accordingly rare — a reign too brief to generate meaningful mint output. The ashrafi itself was a denomination introduced by the Mamluks in the fifteenth century to compete with the Venetian ducat in Levantine trade networks, and surviving examples from any short-reign sultan carry an outsized documentary weight relative to their modest gold content.