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United States
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Ok, I'm bored. It's icy out and I'm stuck in the house and feeling a little mischievous so I'll make a contest. No cheating and looking at references for this one. Scout's honor. I'm trusting all of you out there. Whoever can name the most Islamic mint towns wins a nice uncleaned Roman bronze. All regions and periods from Ummayid to the fall of the Ottomans will count. There's a ton of them - Omer Diler managed to fill three volumes with town names and their epithets. I'll even ship your prize outside the US. Contest ends tomorrow at midnight, Eastern (USA) time. Double super bonus points if you can FULLY identify the ruler, dynasty, denomination and mint of this coin: (translation = 1 extra coin if you name the most mint towns, or I'll just send you a coin if you're the first to get it)  Good luck!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The only ones I know for sure are: Tiberias Constantinople Oh well I tried  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I will just watch and learn.  |
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 United States
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I have a number of Islamic coins that I can't even identify.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
567 Posts |
ValiantKnight wins with 2 mints named. Congratulations! Here's the link to the Ilkhanid coin below Arghun (683-90 H), Damhagan Mint. AR Dirham. Obv: Hexagram with Ilkhan Arghun in center, reverse: Kalima http://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=127205 |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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See I was just about to say Arghun  The smackdown and now this? Must be my lucky day  Thanks for the contest jcmworld! I'll send you my address shortly. |
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Russian Federation
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Darn... I wanted to participate but thought for some reason that the contest went on for longer than a day. It didn't help that, since Islamic is about as far from my interests as it gets, all my attempts on thinking of any Islamic mints were "Istanbul... Istanbul... is Fals a mint or a denomination?" and I kept drawing blanks after that. I did remember at least one likely (Cairo) and one definite (Balasagun... long story) while writing this post That said, I would never have guessed Tiberias (even though I probably visited that place - well I visited a place named Tiberias, not sure if it's the same one). |
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Turkey
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Ottomans minted coins in more than 40 cities until the end of their days. Even, sometimes coins were minted while the Sultan was in a campaign. Constantinople, Bursa, Edirne, Selanik, Cairo, Gumushane and Iznik are the common ones.
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That said, I would never have guessed Tiberias (even though I probably visited that place - well I visited a place named Tiberias, not sure if it's the same one). I only know about it because one of my only two Islamic coins was struck there Umayyad CaliphateAE Fals Obv: The Kalima, in 3-line script, within three circles Rev: In Arabic script: "Muhammad rasul Allah" Tabariya (Tiberias) mint, Album 188 21 mm, 4.05 g  Quote:
(even though I probably visited that place - well I visited a place named Tiberias, not sure if it's the same one). I believe its the town in Israel (not completely sure though - I typed in Tiberias and it led me to this article): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiberiasEdited by VisigothKing
02/05/2014 4:16 pm
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United States
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well, i' would have performed poorly anyway...don't know that I could do any without looking stuff up. I love the color on that coin Vk.
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Posted 02/03/2014 11:04 pm
