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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 2740144, member: 83956&quot;]So I just received my budget version of the “figures/planets mourning Saladin” coin struck by the Artuqids of Mardin, photographed here. But in doing research on the coin, I keep encountering a dating problem. I don’t have any research materials at hand for the coin, so I’m relying on VCoins descriptions that typically list a date of 589 A.H. for the coin–in other words, 589 years after the Hegira, which is how time is reckoned in the Muslim world. The sources I’m encountering claim that the coin was struck at the time of Saladin’s death. Since the Hegira occurred in 622 A.D., then the striking of the coin would have occurred in 1211 A.D. (589+622). But sources for the death of Saladin claim that he died in 1193 A.D.—not even close to 1211 A.D. And I have seen other sources equate 589 A.H. with 1193 A.D., though that math doesn&#039;t make sense to me.&nbsp; What am I missing here?&nbsp; Is there some calendaring quirk that would account for this 18 year discrepancy?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]625359[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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