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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stevex6, post: 2428358, member: 44183&quot;]<span style="color: #0000ff">Sweet OP-score, Jango ... congrats (it&#039;s always nice seeing you adding to your cool collection)</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">I&#039;m pretty sure that my only Islamic example is from many moons later ... </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">=&gt; they had &quot;images&quot; by then</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">ISLAMIC, Anatolia &amp; al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk),&nbsp; Zangids (al-Mawsil), Saif al-Din Ghazi II, Æ Dirhem</span></b></p><p><span style="color: #000000">AH 565-576 / AD 1170-1180</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Dated AH 567 (AD 1171/2)</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Diameter: 30 mm</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Weight: 13.21 grams</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Obverse: Draped young male bust facing slightly left, wearing hair in foreknot; above, winged figures flanking; AH date to right and left</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Reverse: Name and titles of Saif al-Din Ghazi II in five lines and in outer margins</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Reference: Whelan Type I, 174-5; S&amp;S Type 60.3; Album 1861.1</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Other: 7h … brown patina.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">From the J.P. Righetti Collection</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">[ATTACH=full]504221[/ATTACH] </span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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