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Mamluks (Bahri). `Ali II (al-Mansur `Ala al-Din Ali) (778-783 A.H. = 1377-1381 A.D.)
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Balog 509 Plate XX 509a-b; SNAT Hamah 632-634; Album 963
AE fals, Hamah mint, undated; 1.63 g., 18.50 mm. max.
Obv.: Field divided by two horizontal lines of dots. الملك المنصور (al-Malik al-Manusr) / tentatively ضرب طرابلس (duriba Tripoli per Balog but Hamah mint per SNAT)
Rev. Six-petaled flower, resembling a lotus, petals forming a counter-clockwise whorl.
Ali was the son of Sha'ban II and the great-grandson of Muhammad I. He was installed as sultan at age nine upon the death of his father in a revolt. He died four years later.
Attribution courtesy of Mervin.
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