Help with Counterstamp and ID

Discussion in 'World Coins' started by 7Calbrey, Oct 1, 2014.

  1. 7Calbrey

    7Calbrey Well-Known Member

    Hi. Despite the poor condition of this ancient coin, I think it would be better to identify it since it has a clear counterstamped lettering. It could be Sassanid or Arab Byzantine ?
    Thank you for this hard task. Charles Ar z R.jpg Ar z O.jpg
     
    7Calbrey, Oct 1, 2014
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  3. medoraman

    medoraman Well-Known Member

    Islamic counterstamp at least. One cannot tell if the host coin is a Byzantine coin, or an imitative Byzantine coin.There is nothing Sassanid about the host coin in my eyes, unless you are talking Sassanid-Byzantine coins minted around 620 when the Sassanids took over Syria and struck their own imitations of Byzantine bronzes.
     
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  4. Ardatirion

    Ardatirion Où est mon poisson

    I don't see a countermark? The coin is a dirhem of Nur al-Din Mahmud of the Zengids in Syria. Aleppo mint.
     
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