Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Mamluks. al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Barsbay, AH 825-841 / AD 1422-1438. Ashrafi (Gold, 16 mm, 3.35 g, 8 h), al-Qahira, date off flan. Album 998. Balog, Mamluk, 707. Struck from a slightly corroded obverse die and with a scrape on the reverse, otherwise, about extremely fine.


From an important collection of late Mamluk and Ottoman gold coins, formed before 2000.