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<p>[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3266846, member: 84744"]Great coin, I love this sort of thing too. Here's my pair of a Byzantine type and its Islamic imitation from nearly a century later (after part of Syria was taken over by the Zengids):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]860700[/ATTACH] </p><p>Constantine X (1059-1067), Constantinople, AE follis</p><p>Obv: KVDKARO +KWNTAK; Eudocia on left, Constantine on r., labarum between</p><p>Rev: +EMMA NOVHA, IC-XC; Christ standing facing on footstool, wearing nimbus and holding gospels</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]860701[/ATTACH] </p><p>Zengid: Nur ad-Din ibn Zengi (1146-1174), AE fals, Aleppo (Halab). </p><p>Obv: al-Adil (العادل, The Just) Nur al-Din (نردين); Two imperial figures holding a labarum between them</p><p>Rev: Downwards on right: Mahmud (محمود) downwards on left: malik al-umara’ (مالك الأمراء); “Mahmud, King of the Princes”; Christ, nimbate, holding the gospels.</p><p>(Saladin was a general under Nur ad-Din, and eventually overthrew him.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3266846, member: 84744"]Great coin, I love this sort of thing too. Here's my pair of a Byzantine type and its Islamic imitation from nearly a century later (after part of Syria was taken over by the Zengids): [ATTACH=full]860700[/ATTACH] Constantine X (1059-1067), Constantinople, AE follis Obv: KVDKARO +KWNTAK; Eudocia on left, Constantine on r., labarum between Rev: +EMMA NOVHA, IC-XC; Christ standing facing on footstool, wearing nimbus and holding gospels [ATTACH=full]860701[/ATTACH] Zengid: Nur ad-Din ibn Zengi (1146-1174), AE fals, Aleppo (Halab). Obv: al-Adil (العادل, The Just) Nur al-Din (نردين); Two imperial figures holding a labarum between them Rev: Downwards on right: Mahmud (محمود) downwards on left: malik al-umara’ (مالك الأمراء); “Mahmud, King of the Princes”; Christ, nimbate, holding the gospels. (Saladin was a general under Nur ad-Din, and eventually overthrew him.)[/QUOTE]
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