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Offline Jan P

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Re: Looking to ID Islamic coins
« Reply #25 on: February 14, 2023, 08:28:54 am »
Hello John,
Here is your number #4, to compare with the Mamluk copper underneath. Look at the part left of the green line:

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Re: Looking to ID Islamic coins
« Reply #26 on: February 14, 2023, 11:10:39 am »
Underneath, you see "Almalk" in Arabic. Almalk or Al Malik ,as we pronounce it easier, is today usually translated as "the king".
The first picture shows the word in clean, standard Arabic.
The second picture shows it in calligraphy. Although the "l" is the second letter the pen has started with, the line continues in putting the round "m" before it.
(Attention: we are writing right to left. This is Arabic.)
Like the second picture shows the word, it is to see (between two horizontal lines) on the reverse side of both coins of the previous message.

Also your coin number #7 shows it and I believe, this piece too is a Mamluk coin of the same period. especially because the obverse shows a same twisted wreath.
As tird picture, I repeat the two coins here above and as fourth I show your number #7 coin, to compare:

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Re: Looking to ID Islamic coins
« Reply #27 on: February 14, 2023, 05:06:10 pm »
To make it clear:

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Re: Looking to ID Islamic coins
« Reply #28 on: February 15, 2023, 03:58:13 am »
Your number #2:

You must have seen already what is written on its' reverse, John, although this time not between horizontal lines.
Most probably this is a Mamluk too.
Are those traces of a twisted wreath on the left side of its obverse?

 

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