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Fals - Qilij Arslan II Horseman type - Anatolia

Issuer Rûm Sultanate
Year 1156-1192
Type Standard circulation coin
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Edge Plain
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Mintage ND (1156-1192) - 551-588 AH
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Qilij Arslan II spent much of his reign fighting on multiple fronts simultaneously — against the Danishmendids to the east, the Byzantine Empire to the west, and his own sons toward the end of his life, having partitioned the sultanate among twelve of them in 1186. The horseman type fals was struck across this entire turbulent stretch, with attribution to specific regnal years rarely possible given the absence of mint dates on most Anatolian copper issues of the period.

Album 1194.1 represents one of several distinct die groupings within this type. Copper fractions like this one circulated at the local market level, well below the silver dirham economy.

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