Mamluk Sultanate Fals - al-Mansur Abu Bakr, 741 – 742

Æ Fals from Mamluk Sultanate. Issued from 741 to 742. Struck in Copper. Measures 20 mm and weighs 3.1 g.

Obverse

Inscriptions on three lines presenting the last two digits of the year of striking in all letters, in a hexagram formed by two intertwined triangles, spade heads, and inscribed in the same circle; a globule between each ray of this star. ((a) Ihda / (b) Ithnatain
sanat
wa arba'in:
a) "In the year [seven hundred] forty-one [of the Hijrah]".
(b) "In the year [seven hundred] forty-two [of the Hegira]".)

Reverse

On four lines, the name of the workshop in a hexagram formed by two interlaced triangles, spade heads, and inscribed in the same circle; a globule between each ray of this star. (Dariba bi Dimashq:
"Struck in Damascus".)