Ancients => It kinda looks like a Rhodes, but it ain't => AE Dirham anyone?

This cool coin kinda reminded me of those sweet Rhodes coins, but it's from 1170-1180 AD!!

=> I loved the 3/4 facing portrait, plus the "winged figures" flanking ... I absolutely stole this coin at the auction ($80)

=> 30 mm 13.21 grams and even a century that I didn't have yet => cha-chinnngg!!
I hope that you guys like it too ... cheers!!

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk), Zangids (al-Mawsil), Saif al-Din Ghazi II
Æ Dirhem
AH 565-576 / AD 1170-1180
Dated AH 567 (AD 1171/2)
Diameter: 30 mm
Weight: 13.21 grams
Obverse: Draped young male bust facing slightly left, wearing hair in foreknot; above, winged figures flanking; AH date to right and left
Reverse: Name and titles of Saif al-Din Ghazi II in five lines and in outer margins
Reference: Whelan Type I, 174-5; S&S Type 60.3; Album 1861.1
Other: 7h … brown patina.
From the J.P. Righetti Collection

 

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The animal has to be in there somewhere...

 

I know next to nothing about Islamic coins, but piece sure has a lot of style and eye-appeal.

 

=> ahahaha => hey, it is a definite draw, but the "animal" is occasionally not in the cross-hairs!!

... I merely thought that this dawg rocked!!! (hopefully you guys see it too?!)

 

SteveO, I admired that one too! Glad it went to someone in the 'family'.

 

Subliminal animals, that's why he was drawn to it. Elephant and snake

 

Hope you don't mind steve, here are my only two Islamic coins, from the Umayyad Caliphate (also known as the "U Mad Caliphate" ) (the largest Islamic state to ever exist), and the Ottoman Empire.

Umayyad Caliphate
AE Fals (a word derived from the Byzantine 'follis')
Obverse: The Kalima, in 3-line script, within three circles
Reverse: In Arabic script: "Muhammad rasul Allah"
Tabariya (Tiberias) mint, struck 749 AD
Ref: Album 188


(don't exactly have the full attribution for this one, just the basic info)
Ottoman Empire
AR Akce
Constantinople mint, struck 1482 (during the reign of Sultan Bayezid II)

 

See if you could spot it. I see a bird (like a duck) raising his wing...

edit: I see a hanging monkey with no tail also.

 

You guys better be careful. Somebody's going to make jihad on you.

 

Duck... check.
Hmm, lots of potential monkeys. And snakes! Snakes everywhere! Call an exterminator.

A few other things


Orange: little rubber duckie with its wing raised. Or maybe a long upcurved tail. Or maybe it's doing the headbanger thing with its wingtip. Or the Vulcan sign.

Blue: mutant Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle

Aqua: Headbanger raising hand, making the headbanger thingy. Or a Vulcan.



Red: the field goal is GOOD! (or airport worker guiding plane to the gate)

Purple: a curler in full follow through (turn the coin 90 degrees clockwise)

 

*awesome* => you made my night, coin-girlfriend!!

 

Huh? ... nobody else has a coin from this neck o' the woods?

=> no Islamic fellas out there?

 

Seljuks of Rum



Seljuqs (Seljuks) of Rum, Kusru II (Kaykhusraw II, Ghiyath al-Din Kai Khusrau II, Kay Khusrow II, etc)
Silver Dirham (Dirhem)
Konya Mint
1241-1242 A.D. (AH639)
Obverse: Sun and Lion
Reverse: (lots of snakes, headbanger hand signs, Vulcan hand signs, slugs, birds, and a lobster?)

I know chrsmat71 has some nice Islamics... maybe if we ask nicely he'll post that wonderful Artuquid with head facing portrait plus a bunch of other interesting islamics. Yo Chris!

 

That coin never ceases to dazzle me, TIF.

 

Sweet ...

=> I love those coins too ...

 

Very interesting Steve, don't no much about these, very cool. But you and TIF need to feed your kitty's i can see there ribs..

 

sorry..been distracted by silly things that aren't coins. stupid work.

here's a couple a couple of my favorite Islamic coins...


here's an 13th century artuqid coin, similar to steve's. sometime the youth on the front is described as helios...





here's an early Islamic coin still in the sasanian style, I know a few of us have these.





I have a huge coin crush on those Islamic cat coins...man are they pretty.

 

I'm pretty sure the wings on those "winged figures" are actually jellyfish.

 

Huh => yah, they do kinda look like they have a couple of jelly-fish on spears (hmm?)

 

chrsmat71 => thanks for posting your cool coins!! (it's always awesome seeing that desk of yours!!)