Unknown Coins Need Identification Help

Coins 1 and 2: they're both 1 solidus (aka schilling or szelag) from Danzig (Civitas Gedanensis). The only "King Stephen of Poland" was Stephen of Bathory, ruled 1575-1586. According to his Wikipedia article, Danzig refused to recognize him as king and was besieged until the end of 1577, so these coins must date from 1578-1586.

Coin 3: I don't know enough to do anything other than trust what the Iraqi guy says it is: a bronze dirham of Atabeg Badr al-Din Lu'lu, founder of the Lu'lu'id dynasty, who ruled in the city of Mosul (now in northern Iraq) in AH (Islamic calendar) 631-675 (= AD 1233-1258). The "head in square" type is dated from the start of his reign (631/1233) and is catalogued as "common". The reference numbers I have are Marsden: M181 and Stephen Album: A1874.1.

Islamic rulers from around this time and place were almost unique for using such pictorial motifs on their coins; most Islamic coins have only got Arabic writing on them. It's a pity the portrait on your coin hasn't survived the centuries very well.

I have a number of those Islamic iconographic coins, and some of them remain unidentified. So far, I haven't come up with a good way to identify them; references on this material are scarce. The upside is that they are usually inexpensive because few people know what they are. Most that I have seen have not survived well; yours looks very much like many of mine.

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