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<p>[QUOTE="1934 Wreath Crown, post: 4736515, member: 76965"]Excellent write-up [USER=96898]@Orielensis[/USER]. I've been looking for a coin from the Great Khan for a while now but have been missing out. I find is rather curious that Chingiz Khan's coins were struck in the Arabic Script and would have thought they would have been in Chinese or similar script. </p><p><br /></p><p>Also they are almost always described as 'Islamic' while he was not a Muslim. Agreed that his successors converted to Islam but Chengiz Khan died a Tengrist and while he was religiously tolerant and showed interest in several religions including Islam, he was also responsible for butchering vast numbers of civilians belonging to those religions. </p><p><br /></p><p>The coins of the Mongol Dynasty were generally poorly struck and almost illegible, especially their gold issues. Also in the majority of cases, the date is either off-flan or so weakly struck that it is illegible. Therefore, I consider myself very fortunate to have had the opportunity to acquire an example of a gold dinar where the date of AH(6)18 (1221/22 AD) is apparently visible (although I am unable to locate it). This means it was struck during his lifetime and very special, for me at least. It order to get further confirmation, I will be submitting it for grading and hopefully it will come back graded with partially or fully visible date.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1158710[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="1934 Wreath Crown, post: 4736515, member: 76965"]Excellent write-up [USER=96898]@Orielensis[/USER]. I've been looking for a coin from the Great Khan for a while now but have been missing out. I find is rather curious that Chingiz Khan's coins were struck in the Arabic Script and would have thought they would have been in Chinese or similar script. Also they are almost always described as 'Islamic' while he was not a Muslim. Agreed that his successors converted to Islam but Chengiz Khan died a Tengrist and while he was religiously tolerant and showed interest in several religions including Islam, he was also responsible for butchering vast numbers of civilians belonging to those religions. The coins of the Mongol Dynasty were generally poorly struck and almost illegible, especially their gold issues. Also in the majority of cases, the date is either off-flan or so weakly struck that it is illegible. Therefore, I consider myself very fortunate to have had the opportunity to acquire an example of a gold dinar where the date of AH(6)18 (1221/22 AD) is apparently visible (although I am unable to locate it). This means it was struck during his lifetime and very special, for me at least. It order to get further confirmation, I will be submitting it for grading and hopefully it will come back graded with partially or fully visible date. [ATTACH=full]1158710[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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