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Seems arabic to me.
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Islamic coppers are notoriously hard to identify - the mints were often pretty sloppy with quality control, leaving much of the design illegible.

I'll get back to you if I have any luck checking though my references of common Islamic types.
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I've found one that looks similar: bronze fals of the Ayyubid sultan Al-Aziz Uthman (1193-1198 AD), from the Damascus mint (Marsden #236, Album #798). The mint and date of issue are written in the circle around the outside of the side pictured in the top picture, but there probably isn't enough detail left to narrow the date down further than that. It's rated in the Album catalogue as "Common" - probably in the $5 to $10 range?

The Ayyubids were the inheritors of the territories conquered by Saladin. Uthman was his younger son and immediate heir.
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10Q sap..
where can I find this album catalogue you are talking about?
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Unfortunately, the Album catalogue doesn't have pics, which someone who can't read Arabic properly (like me) really needs, to be able to collect this series. It's called "A Checklist of Islamic Coins", by Stephen Album. I understand he's working on a pictorial supplement, with the aim of eventually issuing a "Krause-like" book on Islamic coinage.

For pictorial references, I have Album's 1977 reprint of the 1850's book "Numismata Orientalia Illustrata" by William Marsden, and the book "Arabic coins and how to read them" by Richard Plant.

There are a few good "Islamic coinage" websites, too. Googling "islamic coins" or something similar comes up with more than a few hits.

(Edited to fix the title of Marsden's book. Why did people in the 19th century have to use high-falutin' Latin book titles, anyway!?!)
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Sap you are the man when it comes to th really old stuff. Good Job.
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