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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 5194992, member: 96898&quot;]I&#039;m in the mood for non-European medieval coins today. Here are a dirham and a fractional dirham minted for Baibars, the fourth and arguably most important sultan of the Mamluk Bahri dynasty, which came to power after the Mongol invasion and the end of Ayyubid rule in North Africa and the Levante. [USER=81887]@Parthicus[/USER] did a phenomenal <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/hit-me-baybars-one-more-time.358169/#post-4340394" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/hit-me-baybars-one-more-time.358169/#post-4340394">write-up</a> on this ruler some time ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>Note the little feline in the exergue, a pun on Baibars&#039; name, which translates as &quot;noble panther.&quot; On my full dirham, it is mostly off flan, while the fractional has a more or less complete animal. If I&#039;d have to draft a short list of important medieval Islamic coins, this type would certainly be included.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1214408[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">Mamluk Sultanate, under Baibars I, AR dirham,&nbsp; 1262–1278 AD (662–676 AH), al-Quahira (Cairo) mint. Obv: names and titles of Baibars: &quot;al-salihi / al-sultan al-malik / al-zahir rukn al-dunya wa al-din / baybars qasim amir al-mu&#039;minin;” below, big cat l. Rev: central kalima: &quot;la ilah illa allah / muhammad rasuluallah / arsalahu bi&#039;l-huda;&quot; marginal legend: “duriba al-quahira / sanat [date off-flan].” 20mm, 2.87g. Ref: Album 883.</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">[ATTACH=full]1214410[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="3">Mamluk Sultanate, under Baibars I, AR fractional dirham (struck from dies for full dirham),&nbsp; 1262–1278 AD (662–676 AH), al-Quahira (Cairo) mint. Obv: partial names and titles of Baibars: &quot;al-salihi / al-sultan al-malik / al-zahir rukn al-dunya wa al-din / baybars qasim amir al-mu&#039;minin;” below, big cat l. Rev: partial central kalima: &quot;la ilah illa allah / muhammad rasuluallah / arsalahu bi&#039;l-huda;&quot; marginal legend: “duriba al-quahira / [date off-flan].” 14mm, 1.04g.&nbsp; Ref: Album 884.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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