Fals - al Zahir Barquq Trablus

Barquq was the first Burji (Circassian) sultan to rule the Mamluk Sultanate, seizing power in 1382 and then recovering it again in 1389 after a two-year exile — one of the very few medieval Islamic rulers to reclaim a throne lost entirely. This fals was struck at Trablus (Tripoli) during his second reign, the decade in which he consolidated Circassian dominance over the older Bahri Turkish faction for good.

Bal II#605A is a scarce provincial attribution. Tripoli functioned as a secondary mint serving the Syrian provinces, and copper issues from there survive in far smaller numbers than Cairo-struck contemporaries.