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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dltsrq, post: 8235306, member: 75482&quot;]I don&#039;t know how the auction house arrived at <i>fals Antak</i>. To my eye, the obverse imitates a fals of the Mamluk sultan al-Nasir Muhammad (1293-1341) struck at Tripoli in AH 741/ AD 1340 (Balog 240). The obverse of the prototype reads <i>al-malik al-Nasir</i> and is a reasonable match to the pseudo-Arabic of the imitation. I suspect, however, that the Christian who engraved the die thought he was copying the mint name <i>bi-Trablus</i> (&quot;of Tripoli&quot;) which is actually found on the other side.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1448576[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1448577[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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