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Seljuk Dirham - Three Brothers

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 Posted 12/16/2018  11:48 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add TTerrier to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi everyone,

I haven't posted in this forum for a long time but am still a regular reader. During that time I became more interested in Islamic coins - the only problem being I don't speak or read Arabic. I have a number of the standard reference books (including Plant) but the variations in letter forms can be really hard to figure out.

I have what was described as a Three Brothers Seljuk dirham, although the date and mint was not noted by the auction house. This one seems unusual to me as the symbols and decorative elements usually found at the top of these are missing, and instead seem to be replaced by date and mint information.

I think the first word on the obverse (the right image) might be sanat followed by decade and year in diwani with sitt at the very bottom of the coin. The first two lines of the central inscription are in the standard form but I cannot understand the name of the caliph in the third line.

The top of the reverse has zuriba as the first word and then presumably the mint but I'm stuck on that as well.

I tried surfing through Zeno to see if I could find a match but no luck. Any help with figuring out the inscriptions is much appreciated!

Seljuk-Dirham---Three-Brothers
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 Posted 12/17/2018  01:39 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Kushanshah to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Kaykhusru III, 1265-1283, Arzinjan (Erzincan), 668h:

duriba Arzinjan / al-sultan al-a'zam / ghiyath al-dunya wa al-din / Kaikhusru bin Qilij Arslan / burhan amir al-mu'minin

sana (diwani 8+60) / la ilah illa Allah / Muhammad rassul Allah al-imam / al-Musta'sim (?) amir al-mu'minin / wa sitt mi'at

I'm trusting Zeno on interpretation of the date. BMC regards the name on reverse as a misspelling of al-Musta'sim, the last 'Abbasid caliph who was killed by the Mongols in 658. As good a guess as any.

https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=22039
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12/17/2018 06:27 am
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 Posted 12/17/2018  1:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TTerrier to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks Kushanshah! I didn't think this was a three brothers but couldn't figure out what it actually was.
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