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<p>[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 7967763, member: 128351"]1 : Damascus. Cf : <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1078324" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1078324" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1078324</a></p><p>2 : Scythopolis. Cf. <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5196091" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5196091" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5196091</a></p><p>3 : Amman. Obv. : I read " 'abd Allah 'abd al-Malik" ; rev. legend : La ilah ila Allah wahadu Muhammad rasulillah. Cf : <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2606959" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2606959" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2606959</a> , and <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8085756" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8085756" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8085756</a></p><p>4 : probably a "pseudo-Damascus" mint.</p><p>5 : Tiberias. Cf : <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3330494" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3330494" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3330494</a></p><p>Nice coins ! I don't think that the seated emperor on Damascus coins is the caliph : caliphs are always standing on coins, and do not wear crosses ! I am convinced it is an image of the Christian emperor, very probably Leontius (695-698) as suggested by the obv. legend ΛЄΟ Τ...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 7967763, member: 128351"]1 : Damascus. Cf : [URL]https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1078324[/URL] 2 : Scythopolis. Cf. [URL]https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5196091[/URL] 3 : Amman. Obv. : I read " 'abd Allah 'abd al-Malik" ; rev. legend : La ilah ila Allah wahadu Muhammad rasulillah. Cf : [URL]https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2606959[/URL] , and [URL]https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8085756[/URL] 4 : probably a "pseudo-Damascus" mint. 5 : Tiberias. Cf : [URL]https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3330494[/URL] Nice coins ! I don't think that the seated emperor on Damascus coins is the caliph : caliphs are always standing on coins, and do not wear crosses ! I am convinced it is an image of the Christian emperor, very probably Leontius (695-698) as suggested by the obv. legend ΛЄΟ Τ...[/QUOTE]
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