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Dinar - al-Ashraf Khalil
| Issuer | Mamluk Sultanate |
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| Year | 1290-1293 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse lettering | السلطان الملك الأشرف صلاح الدين خليل بن قلاوون |
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Al-Ashraf Khalil ruled for less than three years before his assassination in 1293, but his reign produced the single most consequential military event of the medieval Near East — the fall of Acre in 1291, which ended the Crusader presence in the Holy Land after nearly two centuries. Dinars struck in his name circulated through a sultanate flush with the political prestige of that victory.
Mamluk gold of this period was minted primarily at Cairo and Damascus, with attribution between the two often requiring die study rather than explicit mint marks.