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KM39304

Saladin, Gold Dinar, al-Qahira, AH 578.

Regular price £1,600
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Ayyubid, al-Nasir Salah al-Din Yusuf I, Saladin, (AH 564-589 / 1169-93 AD), gold Dinar, al-Qahira, AH 578, two marginal inscriptions, and a central inscription in two lines, on both obverse and reverse, naming the Abbasid caliph al-Nasir, as commander of the faithful in the inner obverse marginal legend, and, on the reverse naming Saladin in the inner marginal legend as, 'âdil, al malik, 'âlim, salah al din, and in two lines at the centre, as Yusuf b. Ayyub, ["Joseph" son of "Job"], 4.73g, 6h (A 785.2). Edge scrape, possibly removed from a mount in the distant past, nearly extremely fine.

Provenance:

Ex Baldwin's, Auction 95, 23 September 2015, lot 2512

'âdil, al malik, 'âlim, salah al din, can be translated as virtuous king, pure, righteousness of religion

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