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Fals - al Zahir Barquq Halab mint
| Issuer | Mamluk Sultanate |
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| Year | 1390-1399 |
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| Diameter | 21 mm |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
| Obverse lettering | ضرب بحلب الملك الظاهر عزنصره (Translation: Duriba bi Halab: `Hit in Aleppo.` Al-Malik Al-Zahir [Sayf ad-Din Barquq]: `The ruler, Al-Zahir Sayf ad-Din Barquq.` Azz nasrahu: `May his victory be glorious.`) |
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Al-Zahir Barquq was the first sultan of the Burji (Circassian) Mamluk line, seizing power in 1382 after decades of Bahri Turkish dominance. His reign was interrupted — he was deposed in 1389 and exiled to Kerak, then recaptured Cairo in 1390 after defeating his usurpers, a political reversal that makes dating Halab mint copper to his second reign a meaningful distinction. Aleppo functioned as the commercial and administrative hub of Mamluk Syria, and its fals production supplied the small-change economy of the northern provinces at a time when silver coinage was increasingly hoarded or exported.