Fals - Kaykhusraw I Horseman type

Kaykhusraw I had an interrupted reign — he was deposed in 1196, spent years in exile at the Crusader court of Constantinople and later in Byzantine-controlled territories, then reclaimed the Seljuk throne of Rûm in 1205. The horseman type fals belongs entirely to that second reign, making it a product of a sultan who had personally navigated the fractured politics of Anatolia's western edges before returning to power in Konya.

Copper fals of Rûm are routinely underrepresented in collections relative to the silver dirhams, largely because they circulated hard in local markets and few were preserved deliberately.