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Fals - al-Ashraf Sha'ban II al-Qahira Mint
| Issuer | Mamluk Sultanate |
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| Year | 1363-1377 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Irregular flan with a surrounding border of dots enclosing a linear deca-hexalobe (sixteen-lobed) frame. Within the lobed frame, a multi-line Arabic legend occupies the central field, giving the full titulature of the sultan. The strike is characteristically uneven, as expected of hammered Mamluk copper coinage, with portions of the legend compressed near the irregular flan edge. |
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| Reverse description | Irregular flan with an outer border of dots enclosing a circular line. Within the circular line, a linear eight-pointed star radiates from the center, with a small florette occupying each of the eight segments between the inner circular line and the points of the star. A two-line Arabic mint and date legend is inscribed in the central field within the star, referencing the Cairo mint and the regnal year seventy-seven (AH 777). The overall execution is typical of the roughly struck hammered copper fulus of the Mamluk period. |
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Al-Ashraf Sha'ban II came to power as a child of around ten and ruled under the effective control of senior amirs until he asserted greater independence in his later years — a reign that ended when those same amirs had him strangled in 1377. Copper fals of this period were minted in substantial quantities at Cairo to facilitate low-value market transactions, though Mamluk copper coinage is notoriously difficult to attribute precisely given the inconsistency of dies and the frequency of overstruck specimens. Balog's corpus remains the essential reference, with type 447 among the better-documented emissions of this sultanate.