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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3764005, member: 44316&quot;]Theme: Sagittarius</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1007867[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>29-27 mm. 8.50 grams.</p><p>Artuqids of Mardin (Mardin is a city in eastern Turkey very close to the border with Syria)</p><p>Nasir al-din Artuq-Arslan, as vassal of the Ayyubid al-&#039;Abil Abu Bakr AH 592-615 with Caliph al-Nasir AH 575-622, struck year 599 = 1201 AD.</p><p><br /></p><p>Centaur-archer running right, human trunk turned 3/4 to rear stretching bow with arrow aimed at the wide-open jaws of a dragon(?) emerging from the centaur&#039;s tail.</p><p>This represents the zodiac &quot;day house&quot; of Sagittarius.</p><p>The reverse has a 5-line legend with four short lines in the quadrants.</p><p><br /></p><p>Spengler/Sayles 38 (scarcer variety mentioned with 5-line legend instead of 4). Wilkes 1212v (his has centaur left). Sayles thinks many Turkoman coin types have astrological references. He illustrates artifacts with the whole zodiac which have precisely this representation (including the dragon tail) of Sagittarius, so this one is certainly Sagittarius.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next theme:&nbsp; Turkoman bronze.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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