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Fals - Qilij Arslan II Horseman type - Anatolia
| Issuer | Rûm Sultanate |
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| Year | 1156-1192 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Central field bears the honorific titulature of Sultan Qilij Arslan II arranged in four lines of Arabic Naskh script, reading: al-Sultan al-Mu'azzam Qilij Arslan ibn Mas'ud. The inscription fills the field in a bold, angular hand characteristic of Seljuk-period copper issues. The legend is enclosed within a border of dots (grenetis) running around the full circumference of the coin. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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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.