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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 8238976, member: 84744&quot;]I agree with&nbsp; your general sentiments about varieties, [USER=110504]@+VGO.DVCKS[/USER]!</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for that page, [USER=74712]@FitzNigel[/USER]!&nbsp; I see that #130 is not a good match for the two Leu coins - the illustration doesn&#039;t even have a hexagram design.&nbsp; Maybe a misattribution, though the coins are surely related in some way.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Except Tripoli fell to the Mamluks in 1289, long before al-Nasir&#039;s third reign.&nbsp; Are you suggesting that Peter of Cyprus issued these coins when he planned to retake territory on the mainland, including Tripoli?&nbsp; Otherwise the coin still seems quite puzzling to me.&nbsp; Its fabric puts it at the end of the Crusader period. It seems to be a Crusader product with imitative Arabic legends, reading al-malik al-Nasir.&nbsp; The closest hexagram design is found on falus of Qala&#039;un, after the fall of Antioch but before the fall of Tripoli and Acre.&nbsp; The closest legend is al-Nasir Muhammad, but that&#039;s after the fall of Acre.</p><p><br /></p><p>A few ideas that occurred to me:</p><p>- could the issuer simply be harking back to a legend of Saladin?&nbsp; (I believe he used al-malik al-Nasir.)</p><p>- or maybe of the Ayyubid ruler al-Zahir Ghazi?&nbsp; There are tons of earlier Crusader imitations of his coins.</p><p>- or what about al-Nasir Yusuf II of Aleppo, he has some falus <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=16188" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=16188" rel="nofollow">with a hexagram design</a>.</p><p>- Also, check out these very late Crusader coins attributed to Acre with a similar design, <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=4946" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=4946" rel="nofollow">the AE coins on this page</a>.&nbsp; Surely related?</p><p><br /></p><p>Just throwing out some ideas and hoping you guys can solve this mystery for me, I&#039;m really just floundering around.&nbsp; [USER=75482]@dltsrq[/USER]?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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