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Falus - Abou Abbas Ahmed al-Mansour 1st Standard
| Issuer | Morocco |
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| Year | 1578-1586 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Central field displaying a three-line Arabic inscription set within a double linear border. The legend records the Hijri date '991' written in full word form as 'واحد وتسعين وتسعمائة' (nine hundred and ninety-one AH), corresponding to 1583 CE. The flan is irregular and somewhat clipped, typical of hammered copper issues of the Saadian dynasty. The double border frames the inscription, consistent with the obverse treatment and standard Saadian Falus typology. |
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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.