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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5406053, member: 110504&quot;]Splendid examples, [USER=87157]@Aunduril[/USER].&nbsp; I&#039;ve collected up to Alfonso IX; with that as an available frame of reference, those are Solid as Get-Out.</p><p>And [USER=76835]@TTerrier[/USER], I only wish I had a scrap of the fluency in Arabic, and languages, Semitic and farther east, that you and some of our other esteemed colleagues here have.&nbsp; In reference, for one, to my first post for today.&nbsp; I felt like issuing a dislaimer: &#039;I have no idea what the Arabic legends mean.&#039;</p><p>...Now, watch while I do the same thing again.&nbsp; (Yes, here, it&#039;s very much still Monday.)&nbsp; In particular deference to [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER] and [USER=77704]@panzerman[/USER], here are my two intact (as struck, minus clipping) AV taris.&nbsp; ...Honest, though, if anyone can help with any of the Arabic (including the earlier post, the fractional dinar of Valencia), my appreciation would be as profuse and profound as it would be (...no less inexorably?) insufficient.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1233890[/ATTACH]</p><p>I&#039;ll just copy and paste the dealer&#039;s description and references:</p><p>Anonymous, Amalfi or Salerno (Pseudo-Kufic) c. 1000-1050, Pseudo-Kufic legend around central pellet / Pseudo-Kufic legend around central pellet,</p><p>9 mm, 0, 56 g</p><p>Cf. Grierson-Travaini 38 (Amalfi); cf. Biaggi 14 (Amalfi)</p><p>In other words, this is from the eve of the Norman conquest of the southern Italian mainland (Salerno, Apulia and Calabria), imitating a recent Fatimid-era prototype.</p><p>For those, here&#039;s one likely suspect:</p><p><a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=251200" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=251200" rel="nofollow">https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=251200</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1233895[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1233891[/ATTACH]</p><p>This is of al-Mustansir billah, a nominal Fatimid vassal in Sicily, AH 427-487; 1036-1094 ACE.&nbsp; Siquilliyah mint (renamed Palermo ...after giving its name to the island).&nbsp; Issued on the eve of the conquest of the island by Robert Guiscard and his brother Roger.&nbsp; (Album 722.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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