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Fals - al-Salih Salih Hamah mint
| Issuer | Mamluk Sultanate |
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| Year | 1354 |
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| Reference(s) | Bal II#339 |
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| Reverse description | A ten-petalled floral rosette with a central globule occupies the field, set within a ten-pointed star formed by intersecting lines, the whole contained within a raised circular border. The geometric interlace design is typical of Mamluk decorative convention on fals coinage of the mid-fourteenth century. |
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| Mint | Hamah |
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Al-Salih Salih was a boy sultan, installed by the amir Shaykhu in 1351 at roughly eleven years old and deposed in 1354 — the same year this fals was struck at Hamah. Real power never rested with him. Hamah had lost its Ayyubid princely line to Mamluk absorption in 1341, and by mid-century the mint there functioned as a provincial facility subordinate entirely to Cairo's political machinery.
Bal II#339 is among the scarcer provincial copper attributions for this reign, Hamah output being modest compared to Damascus or Alexandria.