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Fals - al-Nāṣir Muhammad I Hamah Mint
| Issuer | Mamluk Sultanate |
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| Year | 1310-1341 |
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| Reference(s) | KM# 286 |
| Obverse description | Irregular hammered copper flan bearing a two-line Arabic legend in Naskh script disposed across the central field. The upper line reads al-Sultan al-Malik and the lower line al-Nasir, collectively rendering the royal titulature of Sultan al-Malik al-Nasir Muhammad. The relief is bold but somewhat uneven owing to the hand-struck technique, and the surfaces display characteristic dark patination with traces of green cuprite consistent with long burial. No border ornament is present, the legend filling the available field to the flan edges. |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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Al-Nāṣir Muhammad ibn Qalāwun ruled three separate times — deposed twice, restored twice — making his third reign (1310–1341) the longest continuous Mamluk sultanate of the medieval period. The Hamah mint operated under governors appointed from Cairo, and its copper fals output served local Levantine markets where silver dirhams were increasingly hoarded or exported. Hamah itself had been the seat of the Ayyubid Artuqid client dynasty until Qalāwun absorbed it definitively in 1299, and Mamluk minting there was still relatively recent when these pieces entered circulation.