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<p>[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 4704434, member: 84744"]The interesting designs on Artuqid and some Zengid bronzes make them a good entrée into Islamic coins!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1155025[/ATTACH] </p><p>Artuqids: Husam al-Din Yuluq Arslan (1184-1200)</p><p><font size="4">Traditionally thought to represent mourning for Saladin, Spengler and Sayles have argued that scene represents Virgo surrounded by planets and relates to an astronomical event of AD 1186 that was thought to portend calamitous events (corroborated by the death of Saladin in 589).</font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1155027[/ATTACH] </p><p>Zengid: Badr al-Din Lu'lu (1233-1259)</p><p><font size="4">Mosul was spared destruction in the Mongol invasion (the sack of Baghdad was in 1258) because Lu'Lu' helped Hulagu in his campaigns in Syria.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 4704434, member: 84744"]The interesting designs on Artuqid and some Zengid bronzes make them a good entrée into Islamic coins! [ATTACH=full]1155025[/ATTACH] Artuqids: Husam al-Din Yuluq Arslan (1184-1200) [SIZE=4]Traditionally thought to represent mourning for Saladin, Spengler and Sayles have argued that scene represents Virgo surrounded by planets and relates to an astronomical event of AD 1186 that was thought to portend calamitous events (corroborated by the death of Saladin in 589).[/SIZE] [ATTACH=full]1155027[/ATTACH] Zengid: Badr al-Din Lu'lu (1233-1259) [SIZE=4]Mosul was spared destruction in the Mongol invasion (the sack of Baghdad was in 1258) because Lu'Lu' helped Hulagu in his campaigns in Syria.[/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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