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DagonX Valued Member Poland 392 Posts	Posted 08/30/2023 03:10 am Hi! A friend ask my to help him with id of this coin. I have no experience with arabic coins, so I will be absolutely grateful for any help. Thanks! Report this Post to the Staff

Petespockets55 Pillar of the Community United States 5765 Posts	Posted 08/30/2023 06:21 am Are you certain this is Arabic? I'm having trouble making out any characters for establishing a date. EDIT: The weight and diameter are very helpful to establish an ID. Here's a site with an odd name thatt I've found very useful for finding a date for these types of coins. "Cro-unity time Machine" http://creounity.com/apps/time_mach....htm&lang=en Words of encouragement are one of the major food groups. We need to consume them regularly to thrive and grow. Edited by Petespockets55 08/30/2023 06:25 am Report this Post to the Staff
Kushanshah Pillar of the Community United States 1554 Posts	Posted 08/30/2023 4:56 pm Zangids of Syria, Nur al-Din Muhammad b. Zangi, 1146-1174, AE fals, type of Dimashq. . Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16806 Posts	Posted 08/30/2023 6:39 pm Yes, it's Arabic - the "serif-tipped" writing style is very typical of the "Crusader-era" Arabic coins. And Creounity and other date-converter websites don't help much with coins this old. They didn't use regular Arabic numerals to write the date back then; dates on coins were written out in Arabic in full (eg. "five and sixty and four hundred") until around AD 1200 or so, when they started using Arabic numerals. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
Kushanshah Pillar of the Community United States 1554 Posts	Posted 08/30/2023 11:34 pm Correction. I meant to write "Mahmud" rather than 'Muhammad' in my previous post. Nur al-Din Mahmud bin Zangi. I need coffee. Report this Post to the Staff
DagonX Valued Member Poland 392 Posts	Posted 08/31/2023 01:06 am Thanks a lot! Report this Post to the Staff
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