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josephrg Valued Member United States 234 Posts	Posted 02/17/2013 08:49 am 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 Report this Post to the Staff

FVRIVS RVFVS Pillar of the Community United States 3444 Posts	Posted 02/17/2013 12:19 pm 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 Report this Post to the Staff
FVRIVS RVFVS Pillar of the Community United States 3444 Posts	Posted 02/17/2013 12:43 pm 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 Edited by FVRIVS RVFVS 02/17/2013 12:45 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Masis Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 946 Posts	Posted 02/17/2013 12:58 pm Looks "Artuqid". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artuqids#Coinage Really nice example! Report this Post to the Staff
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 02/17/2013 1:00 pm Interesting coin. Report this Post to the Staff
josephrg Valued Member United States 234 Posts	Posted 02/17/2013 3:05 pm 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. Report this Post to the Staff
chrsmat71 Pillar of the Community United States 4973 Posts	Posted 02/17/2013 6:13 pm i don't know what that is, but I like that reverse. neat coin. Report this Post to the Staff
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