28 Weeks: 28 Centuries Of Coins

Missed the 12th century...
(with the consent of the moderator)
1) Armenia
Roupenian (Rubinian, Reubenian) Dynasty
Royal period
1198-1219AD
King seated on a throne ornamented with lion heads, feet resting on a footstool, wearing a crown and a royal mantel, holding a cross in the right hand and fleur-de-lis in the left.
(this site does not accept armenian characters...)
'Lewon Tagawor Hayots'
Levon, King of Armenians. (1198-1219)
A cross between two lions, rampant, regardant.

'Karogowt eambn astowtzoy'
By the power of God


2) Syrian region
1 dirhem
AH564-589 (1169-1174AD)
Ayyubid dynasty
al-Nasir Yusuf I (Saladin) (1169-1193)
mint off flan (Hamah)
muling of two obverse dies of A-787.B-112 variant


3,4&5) Tunesia
dirham
Issuer : Muwahhid Dynasty anonieme uitgave
mint: unknown
Ref : Mitchiner 421
Date c. AH 558-668/ AD 1162-1270
Obverse Arabic legend in Nashki script.




6) Byzantium
about 1143
Manuel Comnenus
(St George with spear and shield)
monogram Loros
# sb1977
Manuel I AE Half-Tetarteron. Monogram / Bust of Manuel facing, beardless, wearing crown and loros, and holding labarum and globe cross.


7)France
1 denier
Provins / Comte de Champagne (France)
Ruler: Thibaut II (1125-1152)
TEBALT COMES: count Thibaut
CASTRI PRVVINS: castle of Provins
Ref: Boudeau 1759


8) Ottoman empire (Turkey)
1 fals
Seljuq dynasty of Rum (Anatolia)
No date
Ruler : Masud I (AH509-550/1116-1156AD)
Rukn ad-Din Mas'ud I
Legend:
al-sultan/al-mu'azzam/mas'ud bin/qilij arslan
Sultan/./Masud zoon van/Qilij Arslan
Rukn ad-Din Mas'ud I b. Qilij Arslan
AE fals, long royal bust on obverse, holding globus cruciger & labarum, always without mint or date

Very nice, Petrus! I have always been fascinated by Arabic coins from the golden age of Islam, but honestly the language barrier has always prevented me from getting very far. I never knew that coins from the heart of the Islamic world would have had the image of a sultan--isn't that more or less expressly forbidden in the Quran?

And I love those English pennies! Funny to see the names of kings go abruptly from William and John and Edward to Cnut and Aethelred. Something about the year 1066...

I have some Song dynasty coins, at least one Indian, and maybe a few Byzantines for this century, but I will need to do some quick ID work first!

Here is my 1000-38 Hungarian denar under King Stephen I. He was Grand Prince 997-1000 and King 1000-38. This is one of 4 varieties and the first coinage of the Hungarian Empire. This is also my oldest coin. Huszar 1,Unger 1,Rethy I1.

Here are two recent acquisitions.
1056-9 Edward The Confessor of England. Sovereign Eagles Type Penny. S.1181 N.827 +DVNNICN ONN HÆS MOneyer DUNINC of HASTINGS



1029-36 Cnut The Great of England. Short Cross Type Penny. S.1159 N.790 +EDPINE ON LVND Moneyer EADWINE of LONDON

I really like how you can see the fading influence of the late Roman coins in that Cnut penny, even 600 years later!

Do any members on here own anything from William I?

Slow century...



China, Song dynasty
Xiang fu, 1008-1016

Here are a couple silver dirhams that I have posted previously in another thread:

https://goccf.com/t/195985&whichpage=40

As a bit of a tease, if anyone out there is sitting on a coin minted between 890 and 899 AD, please consider posting it over there so that we can continnue our countdown from 1600 by decades.

Coin 1 is from Tashkent Uzbekistan and is dated AH 290 (902 AD). Attribution is Album 1443.







Coin 2 is from Balkh Afganistan and is dated AH 326 (938 AD). Attribution is Album 1451.