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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2526683, member: 42773&quot;]This little chunk of silver no longer belongs to me but I was charmed by its thick planchet (4mm), high relief, and high fineness. It&nbsp; comes from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarat_Sultanate" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarat_Sultanate" rel="nofollow">Gujarat Sultanate</a>, minted under Nasir al-din Mahmud Shah III, 1537-1553.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]539439[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t learned to read Arabic beyond recognizing a few letters, but I did find the coin on <a href="http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces37988.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces37988.html" rel="nofollow">Numista here</a>. I&#039;m not sure if I have the obverse and reverse pictured on the correct sides. The obverse has the <i>al-wathiq</i> invocation of Allah, &quot;He who trusts in Allah, the most generous, the protector of the world and the faith, father of victory,&quot; referring to the king and his titles on the reverse, &quot;Mahmud shah bin latif shah al-sultan.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>So in Western coins, we usually call the obverse the side with the ruler on it. Is it opposite in Islamic coins?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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