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Fals - Najm al-din Ghazi I Inscriptions in squares
| Issuer | Artuqids of Mardin |
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| Year | 1239-1260 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse lettering | بالله الامام المستعصم أمير المؤمنين |
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Najm al-Din Ghazi I ruled Mardin for over two decades during the catastrophic Mongol advance into the Islamic world — Bagdad fell to Hülegü in 1258, two years before his death. Mardin itself survived only through a combination of geographic inaccessibility and calculated submission, its citadel perched on a near-vertical rock face that Mongol cavalry could not effectively assault. The Artuqids paid tribute and retained nominal authority.
Album 1833 encompasses the full range of his copper coinage, and attribution of individual pieces to specific years within the reign remains difficult without accompanying hoard documentation.