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totty Valued Member Australia 77 Posts	Posted 09/07/2018 05:30 am I recently got this coin. quite scratched, but the lettering stands out rather well. width at widest is 15mm, narrowest 13mm. I don't have scale so I cant give the weight, sorry for the poor image quality too (if anyone has any photographing tips that don't require a big setup I'm all ears!). Thanks. Report this Post to the Staff

Kushanshah Pillar of the Community United States 1554 Posts	Posted 09/07/2018 1:21 pm Your coin appears to be a Mamluk fractional dirham. These small coins were struck from dies intended for full dirhams. Thus, only a small portion of the design appears on any given coin. On this piece (first photo, upside-down) I can read what I believe is ...[al-mans]ur [say]f al-dunya wa al-[din]..., titles of Qala'un (al-Mansur Sayf al-Din), 1279-1290. The position of words relative to one another in the die and the decorative elements are similar to full dirhams of Qala'un struck at Cairo as depicted in Balog. Album 895. https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=9228 Edited by Kushanshah 09/07/2018 1:41 pm Report this Post to the Staff
totty Valued Member Australia 77 Posts	Posted 09/07/2018 7:15 pm Wow! Thanks for all the info! I always just figured the edges were rather chipped, interesting story, Report this Post to the Staff
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