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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8132773, member: 128351&quot;]These 2 coins have been found in North Jordan, a few km North of Zarqa.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1416657[/ATTACH]</p><p>Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, Amalric I, denier, AR 17 mm, 0.96 g. 1163-1174</p><p>Obv.: AMALRICVS RЄX :, cross in dotted circle, o in quarters 2 and 3.</p><p>Rev.: + DЄ IЄRVSALЄM, Holy Sepulchre in dotted circle.</p><p>Metcalf 170, Malloy 22-23.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1416659[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Nur al-din Mahmud b. Zanji, AE dirham (?), AE 25 mm, 5.82 g, 12 h. Damascus 1148-1174 ?</p><p>I cannot decipher the Arabic legends too well... On obv. the central inscription must be al-malik al-adil, but I cannot read the circular legend. On rev. it must be [Mahm]ud ibn Zanji, thus the attribution to Nur al-din.</p><p><br /></p><p>They are contemporaneous, and the find-spot was 10 km North of the border between Frankish territory (Amman) and Islamic territory (Bosra).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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