Watch List notes:

AYYUBID/BAHRI MAMLUK, AYBAK/AL-ASHRAF MUSA (648-650h). Dinar, al-Qahira 64[9]h. OBVERSE: In field: Ayyub | al-Malik al-Salih | al-Malik al-Ashraf | Abu'l-Fath Musa | ibn. REVERSE: In field: al-imam | al-Musta'sim | billah Abu Ahmad 'Abd | Allah amir al-mu'minin. WEIGHT: 4.77g. REFERENCE: Balog (Mamluk) 4; cf The New York Sale XXXVII, 5 January 2016, lot 1149, same dies. CONDITION: Very fine and extremely rare Ex Horus Collection, Baldwin's Islamic Coin Auction 24, 9 May 2013, lot 4769; previously bought from Stephen Album, 1992. The decade of the date is difficult to read on this specimen and the unit missing entirely, but is confirmed by the die-link mentioned above. Al-Ashraf Musa was the son of the last Ayyubid ruler of the Yemen. His brief appearance in the numismatic record is due to the Mamluk ruler, Aybak, who had just taken control of Egypt but did not yet feel secure enough to strike coins in his own name there. Aybak therefore appointed the six-year-old Ayyubid prince as his co-ruler, an arrangement which lasted for two years until Aybak dethroned al-Ashraf Musa and sent him back to private life, living at the house of his aunt.
(1000-1500 GBP)