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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 5308142, member: 96898&quot;]The book you&#039;re looking for is Richard Plant: Arabic Coins and How to Read Them (1975 and later). My non-numismatic knowledge of Arabic is unfortunately limited to &quot;na&#039;am,&quot; &quot;laa,&quot; &quot;shukran,&quot; and &quot;ana min Almaniya&quot; – but using Plant and and a bit of patience, I&#039;m able to decipher most medieval Arabic legends and get their meaning.</p><p><br /></p><p>Used copies are available for little money via Amazon and the other usual channels, and the book is also online <a href="https://archive.org/details/ArabicCoinsAndHowToReadThem/page/n1/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/ArabicCoinsAndHowToReadThem/page/n1/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>And to keep it thread-related, here is a late medieval Indian coin with Arabic legends I bought this year for a measly $6 shipped:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1223945[/ATTACH] </p><p><font size="3">Bahmani Sultanate, under Firuz Shah, AE falus, 1397-1422, Ahsanabad (Gulbarga) mint. Obv: “firuz shah Bahamani.” Rev: “raji ridwan muhaimani” (‘He who seeks the approval of the confiding one’). 16.5mm, 5.41g. Ref: GG BH66.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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