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Falus - Abou Abbas Ahmed al-Mansour 1st Standard
| Issuer | Morocco |
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| Year | 1578-1586 |
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| Value | Falus (1⁄60) |
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| Obverse lettering | ضرب بفاس عام (Translation: Mint in the city of Fas (Fez)) |
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| Mintage | ND - - 986 (1578) فاس - - 987 (1579) فاس - - 990 (1582) فاس - - 991 (1583) فاس - - 994 (1586) فاس - - |
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Ahmed al-Mansour came to power immediately after the Battle of the Three Kings in 1578 — a catastrophic Portuguese-led invasion that killed the reigning sultan, the pretender he was backing, and the Portuguese king Sebastian I, all on the same day. Al-Mansour, who had survived the battle, inherited a kingdom that had just eliminated its enemies in a single afternoon. His early copper falus issues belong to this consolidation period, before the 1591 conquest of Songhay flooded Moroccan coffers with Saharan gold and made such base-metal coinage feel almost beside the point.