Coin with man holding decapitated head - anyone know where from?

I've seen multiple times in the past a gruesome coin where a grinning fellow is holding a sword in one hand and a decapitated head in the other (at least I think that is what was going on).

Does anyone know the name of this coin or where it comes from? Something makes me think it was Turkish or Ottoman or something like that. I'm not even sure how old it was.

Thanks.

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

It's an Islamic coin of the Artuqid dynasty of Mardin:

http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=254552

 

Thanks!

 

I thought perhaps it was this medusa coin:
http://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancients-pontos-amisos-off-with-her-head.242665/#post-1864918

 

That's what came to my mind as well.

 

...and to mine.

 

Well it was the first one...although that one is cool as well (hadn't seen it before).

 

This is the sort of coin the Vikings should have been minting.

 

my first thought was the medusa coins, but that artuqid coin is fantastic as well.