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Fals - al-Mansûr Muhammad II Hamah
| Issuer | Mamluk Sultanate |
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| Year | 1361-1363 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central crescent device enclosed within an overlapping quatrefoil border, itself set within a six-lobed (hexilobe) outer frame, all executed in low relief typical of Mamluk hammered copper coinage. Pellets occupy the interstices between the lobes and the quatrefoil, serving as decorative filler elements. The design is characteristic of the geometric and ornamental repertoire employed on Ayyubid and Mamluk fulus. The coin surface shows typical irregularity and flan crudeness associated with hand-struck copper issues of the period. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Al-Mansûr Muhammad II ruled Hamah as the last of the Ayyubid governors under Mamluk suzerainty — a vestigial arrangement the sultanate tolerated until it did not. His reign ended when the Mamluks simply absorbed the territory outright in 1341, making any coinage struck in his name a product of a polity already effectively dismantled. The fals denomination was the workhorse of small commerce, struck locally and circulating within tight regional boundaries rather than across the broader sultanate.