Arabic, certainly. Probably a silver dirham. The serifs at the tips of the letters are distinctive of the various dynasties that ruled modern-day Iraq, Syria and Turkey in the "mediaeval Islamic" period, roughly contemporary with the Crusades.
That's about as narrow an ID as I can offer at this stage.
That's about as narrow an ID as I can offer at this stage.
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