ISLAMIC, Mamluks. al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Inal, AH 857-865 / AD 1453-1461. Ashrafi (Gold, 14 mm, 3.41 g). Traces of ‘[lā i]lāha illā Al[lāh / Muḥammad] rasūl A[llāh]’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah’ in Arabic). Rev. Traces of ‘[al-]sulṭān al-malik … / [A]bu’l-Naṣr A[ynāl]’ (‘Sultan [and] King … Abu’l-Nasr Aynal’ in Arabic). Album 1012. Struck on a slightly short flan as usual, otherwise, good very fine.

From a West German collection, formed since the 1960s.