Mamluk Sultanate Fals - al Zahir Barquq, 790

Æ Fals from Mamluk Sultanate. Issued in 790. Struck in Copper. Measures 18 mm and weighs 2.8 g.

Obverse

In a circle, inscriptions on four lines comprising the title of the sultan. (Sultan
King Zuhair
Abu Saied Saif
World and religion:
"To Sultan, to zero Zuhair Abu Saied Saif [...].
Since it is not real. ")

Reverse

Inside a circle of points the name of the sultan; around the name of the workshop followed by the date in all letters. A circle followed by a grenetis border the whole. ([...] Barquq
al-dunya wa al-din duriba Dimashq sanat tis'in wa sebmi'at:
"The world and religion struck [this falsy] in Damascus in the year seven hundred and ninety [Hegira]".)