Fals - al-Salih Salih Hamah mint

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.