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Ptolemy Coin?

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 Posted 02/17/2013  08:49 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add josephrg to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I have never seen this type of coin before looks Greek on the obverse and Islamic on the reverse it is 28 mm and 12.4 grams.Not sure what it is can anyone identify it. Thanks Joe

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 Posted 02/17/2013  12:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add FVRIVS RVFVS to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I asked 'mon frere' who is good at identifying such curiousities.

Turkish AE Dirham 1152-1176 Najm al Din Alpi City Mardin (Upper Mesopotamia)
Sits inside modern Turkey along Syrian border
Antiochus VII Tetradrachm was used as 'model' for obverse portrait
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Maker/s
Najm al-Din Alpi (1152-76) (ruler)
no mint (mint)
Category
coin
Name
dirham (denomination)
Islamic (Series)
The Atabegs & Contemporaries (subseries)
Artuqids of Maridin (subsubseries)
Material/s
copper
Dimensions
image(height): 29 mm
image(width): 29 mm
die axis: 285 degrees
weight: 12.5 g

Date
1152 to 1176
http://www-img.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk...589-R(1).jpg
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02/17/2013 12:45 pm
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 Posted 02/17/2013  12:58 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Masis to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Looks "Artuqid".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artuqids#Coinage

Really nice example!
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 Posted 02/17/2013  1:00 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add echizento to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Interesting coin.
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Thanks I never would have figured the coin was made this late going by the portrait.I bought this with a lot of coins from Viminacium which were from a much earlier period.
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i don't know what that is, but I like that reverse. neat coin.
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