| Islamic Coins |  |
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| Byzantine Empire, Uncertain Type, Overstruck Islamic (Abbasid?), |   | |
| BZ65305. Bronze AE 23, probably Byzantine overstruck on an Abbasid copper, F, holed, desert patina, weight 3.022 g, maximum diameter 22.8 mm, obverse nimbate emperor standing facing, Islamic inscription; reverse Arabic legend, perhaps reading: [...] Al Mansour(?) [...] Amir Al Mou'minin[...]; traces of Greek(?) or Latin(?) legend; $200.00 (€150.00) |
| Islamic, Seljuqs Sultanate of Rum, Kaykhusraw I, 1192 - 1196, 1204-1210, Brockage |  | Kaykhusraw I, the eleventh and youngest son of Kilij Arslan II, succeeded his father in 1192. He ruled 1192-1196 and 1205-1211, but had to fight his brothers for control of the Sultanate. He married a granddaughter of the Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos. In 1207 he seized Antalya from its Frankish garrison and furnished the Seljuq state with a port on the Mediterranean. According to Niketas Choniates, he was killed in single combat by Theodore I Laskaris, the emperor of Nicaea, during the Battle of Antioch on the Meander. |
| ME65438. Bronze fals, cf. Album 1202, Mitchiner WOI 957, Zeno OCD 121946 (all same type, not brockages), VF, brockage, weight 3.135 g, maximum diameter 22.3 mm, die axis 0o, obverse horseman right, sword in right at shoulder, star at each side of his head, ornament below; reverse incuse of obverse (normal reverse is Arabic script); $140.00 (€105.00) |
| Islamic, Seljuqs Sultanate of Rum, Kaykhusraw I, 1192 - 1196, 1204-1210 |  | Kaykhusraw I, the eleventh and youngest son of Kilij Arslan II, succeeded his father in 1192. He ruled 1192-1196 and 1205-1211, but had to fight his brothers for control of the Sultanate. He married a granddaughter of the Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos. In 1207 he seized Antalya from its Frankish garrison and furnished the Seljuq state with a port on the Mediterranean. According to Niketas Choniates, he was killed in single combat by Theodore I Laskaris, the emperor of Nicaea, during the Battle of Antioch on the Meander. |
| IS67182. Bronze fals, Album 1207, Mitchiner WOI -, F, weight 2.506 g, maximum diameter 19.7 mm, die axis 315o, 2nd reign, 600 - 607 AH, 1205 - 1211; obverse horseman riding right, sword in right, two stars above; reverse Arabic inscriptions, no mint or date, including title "Abul-Fat-h"; $75.00 (€56.25) |
| Islamic, Umayyad, Arab Pseudo-Byzantine, Bilad al-Sham (Greater Syria), c. 658 - 680 A.D. |  | |
| IS55580. Bronze follis, Foss DOC 75, Goodwin 14, cf. Walker BMC 66 ff., SICA I 543 ff., F, nice desert patina, weight 3.408 g, maximum diameter 21.8 mm, die axis 180o, Emesa (Hims) mint, obverse KAΛON (or similar) on left, Arabic script bi-hims (good in Hims) on right, bust of emperor, beardless, facing, wearing crown and chlamys, globus cruciger in right; reverse large m, o * o above, E/M/I-C/H/C flanking, Arabic script tayyib (good) in ex; $60.00 (€45.00) |
| Islamic, Mongols of Persia, Ilkhans, Uldjaitu Khan, AH 703 - 716, 1304 - 1316 A.D. |  | |
| IS47267. Silver double dirham, Album 2188, aVF, weight 3.956 g, maximum diameter 22.8 mm, die axis 45o, Khabushan mint, AH 715 (1315 - 1316 A.D.); obverse arabic legend within and around hexalobe; reverse arabic legend within and around heptalobe; $55.00 (€41.25) |
| Islamic, Zengids of Mosul, Saif al Din Ghazi II, 1170 - 1180 A.D. |  | Saif ud-Din Ghazi II was chosen as his father's successor, under the advice of the eunuch 'Abd al-Masish, who wanted a young emir he could control. The disinherited brother, Imad ad-Din Zengi II, fled to the court of Nur ad-Din at Aleppo, and then besieged Mosul, which surrendered on 22 January 1171. After ousting the eunuch, he made one of his officers governor, leaving Saif ud-Din only a nominal title. After Nur a Din's death Saif ud-Din restored his independence. He attempted to take control of Biladu-Sham (Syria), but was twice defeated by Saladin and then offered his alliance. Saif ud-Din died from tuberculosis. |
| IS67070. Bronze dirhem, Spengler and Sayles 60.4, Album 1861.1, Mitchiner WOI 1117, Edhem -, F, weight 13.646 g, maximum diameter 29.6 mm, die axis 45o, Mosul mint, 1172 - 1173 A.D.; obverse head (Sol?) facing slightly left, hair knotted on forehead, two angels flying above, Kufic date (AH 568) below; reverse four line Kufic inscription citing Ghazi; $55.00 (€41.25) |
| Islamic, Ilkhanids, Abu Sa'id, 1304 - 1335 |  | |
| IS47266. Silver double dirham, Album 2200.2, VF, weight 3.567 g, maximum diameter 24.5 mm, die axis 0o, Madinat Tabriz mint, illegible; obverse Lailahe illallah Muhammed resulullah, Ebu Bekir Ömer Osman Ali, Feseyekfikehumullahi ve hüves' semi' ül alim; reverse Duribe fi eyyam devlet is-sultan'ül azam Ebu Sa'id halledallahü mülkehu, Duribe Sultaniye, Niamullah el-nasr...; There is no God except for Allah, Muhammad is a Messenger of Allah; $50.00 (€37.50) |
| Iran(?), Civic Coinage(?), c. 1850 - 1900 A.D.(?) |  | This type is not listed in the references checked by Forum and we were unable to find another online. A discussion board member suggested it is an Iranian civic coins overstruck on an early Tabaristan coin. No date and no mint.
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| IS48090. Bronze falus, Not listed in references checked by Forum, weight 8.018 g, maximum diameter 20.8 mm, obverse lion walking left, Kufic inscription above, flower below; reverse tughra; $50.00 (€37.50) |
| Islamic, Umayyad, Arab-Byzantine Coinage, Damascus, c. 650 A.D. |  | |
| IS58694. Bronze fals, Foss DOC 55; cf. Walker BMC 14, gF, potentially active corrosion, weight 4.653 g, maximum diameter 17.9 mm, die axis 200o, Damascus mint, c. 650 A.D.; obverse emperor standing facing, cruciform scepter in left, globus cruciger in right, T lower left, blundered pseudo-Greek inscription right; reverse large M, crude staurogram above, arc above bar below, Arabic script: darb on right, dimashq in ex, ja'iz on left (current issue Damascus); scarce; $50.00 (€37.50) |
| Islamic, Golden Horde Khans, Muhammed Bulaq Khan, 1369 - 1380 A.D., 771 - 782 A.H. |  | |
| IS47877. Billon dirham, Sagdeeva 349, Savel’ev 79, Album 2046, Mitchiner WOI -, F, weight 1.383 g, maximum diameter 16.1 mm, die axis 135o, Urdu mint, AH 771; obverse Arabic inscription: "Al-Sultan al-adil / Mohammed Khan / Khalda mulku" (The Just Sultan, Khan Mohamed, may his rule endure); reverse Arabic inscription: Struck in Urdu 771; scarce; $45.00 (€33.75) |
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