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Islamic Coin Auction 25 10 December 2013
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† ISLAMIC COINS. BAHRI MAMLUK. al-Ashraf Abu'l-Fath Musâ (649-650h), Gold Dinar, al-Qahira 649h, 5.08g (Balog, Coinage of the Mamluks, 3). Good very fine and very rare.
All coins in the name of al-Ashraf Musâ II were actually struck by the Mamluk ruler Aybak who used the Ayyubid Musâ as a formal justification for his own de facto rule, while Musâ was really a son of al-Ma'sud Yusuf, the last Ayyubid ruler of the Yemen. The legends on this coin, however, make out that he was a son of al-Salih Ayyub, the last effective Ayyubid ruler of Egypt behind whose authority Aybak manipulated the ephemeral six-year-old puppet ruler, Musâ. While this coin is entirely Ayyubid in its form and legends it is emphatically one of the first Mamluk issues.
Estimate: £2500-3000
All coins in the name of al-Ashraf Musâ II were actually struck by the Mamluk ruler Aybak who used the Ayyubid Musâ as a formal justification for his own de facto rule, while Musâ was really a son of al-Ma'sud Yusuf, the last Ayyubid ruler of the Yemen. The legends on this coin, however, make out that he was a son of al-Salih Ayyub, the last effective Ayyubid ruler of Egypt behind whose authority Aybak manipulated the ephemeral six-year-old puppet ruler, Musâ. While this coin is entirely Ayyubid in its form and legends it is emphatically one of the first Mamluk issues.
Estimate: £2500-3000