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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2760367, member: 82322&quot;]Although I have a Roman coin with typical Mars reverse I would like to show something very different that also depicts Mars.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]634270[/ATTACH] </p><p>ARTUQIDS OF MARDIN. Husam al-Din Yuluq Arslan</p><p>580-597 AH (1184-1201 AD). Copper dirham.</p><p>Obv: Mars seated with sword behind his head and holding head (of the ghûl Medusa?) in his left hand.</p><p>Rev: names of the caliph, the Ayyûbids al-Afdal &#039;Alî and az-Zâhir Ghâzî, sons of Saladin, and the Artuqid.</p><p>Spengler/Sayles 36.3; Album, Checklist 1829.4.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t actually own the Spenger/Sayles volume which gives the proof that the seated figure is Mars.&nbsp; A CNG cataloger wrote of a similar coin &quot;The &#039;head-cutter&#039; type is is found elsewhere in Arabic art as a representation of Mars.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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