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Fals - al-Ashraf Sha'ban II Hamah mint

Issuer Mamluk Sultanate
Year 1363-1377
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Reference(s) Bal II#460
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Obverse lettering الملك الاشرف
(Translation: The King Ashraf)
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Reverse script Arabic
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Al-Ashraf Sha'ban II came to the throne as a child of roughly seven years old in 1363, with real power held by competing amirs until he was old enough to assert himself — which he did, executing several of his regents once he reached maturity. The Hamah mint had been absorbed into the Mamluk administrative system following the sultanate's annexation of the Hamdanid-era city decades earlier, and copper fals from provincial mints of this reign circulated in local markets largely invisible to the treasury records that tracked gold and silver.

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