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Fals - al-Salih Ayyub Hamah
| Issuer | Ayyubid Sultanate of Egypt |
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| Year | 1244 |
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| Currency | Dinar (1169-1254) |
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| Obverse lettering | الملك الصالح نجم الدين أيوب (Translation: Al-Malik al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub: `The ruler al-Sālih Najm ad-Din Ayyûb`) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Al-Salih Ayyub's control of Hamah was politically awkward — he held the city only intermittently, and its local mint operated under conditions of disputed Ayyubid suzerainty throughout the 1240s. This fals belongs to a period when the broader sultanate was fracturing under dynastic rivalry, just before al-Salih's alliance with the Khwarazmian mercenaries that led to the fall of Jerusalem in 1244 — the same year this piece was struck.
Copper fractions of this type rarely survived in collectible condition; they circulated hard in urban markets where silver was scarce.