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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 6383591, member: 110504&quot;]Here&#039;s one of my Andalusian Almoravid quirats (Little Bitty fractions of dirhams, in good silver; c. late 11th -mid 12th centuries CE).&nbsp; I scooped up some of these a decade or so ago, mostly from Spanish ebay, when it still felt as if you were getting in on the ground floor with the series.&nbsp; This is of Ali ibn yusuf, with his heir Tashfin, AH 533-537 / 1139- 1143 CE.&nbsp; (Vives 1827, Hazard 1004.)[ATTACH=full]1252709[/ATTACH]</p><p>It&#039;s been several, less than uneventful years since I&#039;ve gotten back to them (...along with a lot of the collection), and I&#039;m Waaaay behind in documenting these.&nbsp; (As in, other than by hand, using real ink on real paper.&nbsp; Which did happen.)&nbsp; But during the initial process, this website was invaluable for attributing the whole series.</p><p><a href="http://www.andalustonegawa.50g.com/almoravids_silver.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.andalustonegawa.50g.com/almoravids_silver.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.andalustonegawa.50g.com/almoravids_silver.htm</a></p><p>As hopeless as I am with reading Arabic, even on the level of transliteration (despite its being a Semitic alphabet --what am I saying? I can&#039;t read Hebrew, Phoenician, or Ge&#039;ez /Amharic either), the net experience has to evoke Al Green.&nbsp; ...Who, after all, had Black Pentecostalism as part of his background.&nbsp; It&#039;s kind of like, where language as a medium is concerned, <i>even</i> in the context of coin legends, there&#039;s a place where you&#039;re invited to &#039;suspend disbelief&#039; (Aristotle), whether on an esthetic or a spiritual level.&nbsp; ...Never mind the inexorable layers of overlap between the two.&nbsp; ...Right, &#039;Sha la la la la la,&#039; and so forth.</p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]NNCLir1hdZ8[/MEDIA]</p><p>...Was it Valentine&#039;s Day Eve, or something?&nbsp; <i>You</i> decide....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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