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Dinar - Shajar al-Durr al-Qahira mint
| Issuer | Mamluk Sultanate |
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| Year | 1250 |
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| Value | 1 Dinar |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Central field bearing three lines of Arabic legend in bold naskh script naming the Abbasid Caliph al-Musta'sim Billah, Commander of the Faithful, and the issuing ruler Shajar al-Durr, making this one of the exceptionally rare Islamic coins struck in the name of a female sovereign. A Quranic marginal legend from Sura al-Tawba (9:33) runs continuously around the outer border within a double braided frame. The flan is slightly irregular and the strike bold, with the ruler's name 'Shajar al-Durr' prominently placed in the central field, of great historical and numismatic significance. |
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Shajar al-Durr ruled for approximately eighty days in 1250 CE following the death of her husband al-Salih Ayyub and the battlefield assassination of his heir Turanshah — making her the only woman to reign as sultan over Egypt in the medieval Islamic period. Coins struck in her name are among the rarest issues of the entire Mamluk series precisely because the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad refused to recognize her authority, pressuring the Mamluk amirs to replace her. She was deposed and murdered within months.
The Cairo mint's output under her name was correspondingly brief and small.