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<p>[QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 4871895, member: 110226"]The Atyuquids of Mardin produced some remarkable dirhems in the 1100s - 1200s. The coinage spanned many themes, including what many numismatists considered a coin commemorating the death of Saladin in 1193. </p><p><br /></p><p>This coin was struck in AH 589, 1193. It depicts three figures in mourning on the obverse. The reverse has a Kufic legend citing the Abbasid caliph al-Nasir; titles of Arslan and date in marginal legend.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>"The figures on the obverse may represent actual citizens in mourning for Saladin. Alternatively, they may be symbolic representations of astronomical/astrological entities which were said to have predicted the death of Saladin, and then mourned him – so exceptionally great was the tragedy of his passing that the stars and planets lamented (see Spengler & Sayles, Type 35 section for more details of this latter theory)."</i></p><p><br /></p><p>12.63 grams</p><p>30 mm, 5 h.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1176506[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The theme of mourning or loss is a common theme throughout the coinage of the ancient world, quite often associated with a conquest or victory, with the personification of a conquered nation in mourning, as shown on this sestertius of Vespasian, the Judaea Capta sestertius. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1176515[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>What other examples of mourning do you have? Please post if you wish.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 4871895, member: 110226"]The Atyuquids of Mardin produced some remarkable dirhems in the 1100s - 1200s. The coinage spanned many themes, including what many numismatists considered a coin commemorating the death of Saladin in 1193. This coin was struck in AH 589, 1193. It depicts three figures in mourning on the obverse. The reverse has a Kufic legend citing the Abbasid caliph al-Nasir; titles of Arslan and date in marginal legend. [I]"The figures on the obverse may represent actual citizens in mourning for Saladin. Alternatively, they may be symbolic representations of astronomical/astrological entities which were said to have predicted the death of Saladin, and then mourned him – so exceptionally great was the tragedy of his passing that the stars and planets lamented (see Spengler & Sayles, Type 35 section for more details of this latter theory)."[/I] 12.63 grams 30 mm, 5 h. [ATTACH=full]1176506[/ATTACH] The theme of mourning or loss is a common theme throughout the coinage of the ancient world, quite often associated with a conquest or victory, with the personification of a conquered nation in mourning, as shown on this sestertius of Vespasian, the Judaea Capta sestertius. [ATTACH=full]1176515[/ATTACH] What other examples of mourning do you have? Please post if you wish. Thank you.[/QUOTE]
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