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Message:: [QUOTE="stevex6, post: 1848290, member: 44183"]This cool coin kinda reminded me of those sweet Rhodes coins, but it's from 1170-1180 AD!! => I loved the 3/4 facing portrait, plus the "winged figures" flanking ... I absolutely stole this coin at the auction ($80) => 30 mm 13.21 grams and even a century that I didn't have yet => cha-chinnngg!!I hope that you guys like it too ... cheers!!  ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk), Zangids (al-Mawsil), Saif al-Din Ghazi II Æ Dirhem AH 565-576 / AD 1170-1180 Dated AH 567 (AD 1171/2)Diameter: 30 mmWeight: 13.21 gramsObverse: Draped young male bust facing slightly left, wearing hair in foreknot; above, winged figures flanking; AH date to right and leftReverse: Name and titles of Saif al-Din Ghazi II in five lines and in outer marginsReference: Whelan Type I, 174-5; S&S Type 60.3; Album 1861.1Other: 7h … brown patina. From the J.P. Righetti Collection   [ATTACH=full]308339[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]308340[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]