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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 8240253, member: 84744&quot;]Fair enough.&nbsp; I think the late date for al-Nasir Muhammad makes it extremely unlikely the coin can imitate his.&nbsp; (Note the hexagram style is wrong, too - Muhammad&#039;s coins have a 3D effect, where lines descend behind other lines.)&nbsp; Assuming, for the reasons I gave above, it&#039;s a late Crusader product, I think the betting is that the legend is derived from Saladin, al-Zahir Ghazi, or (most likely) al-Nasir Yusuf II (1250-60).&nbsp; He was the great grandson of Saladin and on friendly terms with the Crusaders.&nbsp; In which case it could be from Antioch, or Tripoli, or Acre.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=91549" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=91549" rel="nofollow">Here&#039;s</a> a late product of (probably) Acre:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1450312[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a fals of al-Nasir Yusuf II:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1450313[/ATTACH] </p><p>Put those two together and you get something close to the coin in question.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW I think Malloy/CCS 130 is in fact the Leu coin, except the Malloy illustration is upside down.&nbsp; I think it may illustrate something like this example (pulled from David Ruckser&#039;s <a href="https://www.academia.edu/30565544/Coins_of_the_CRUSADERS" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/30565544/Coins_of_the_CRUSADERS" rel="nofollow">nice Crusader online book</a>):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1450314[/ATTACH] </p><p>Here&#039;s CCS 130 from Fitz&#039;s photo:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1450315[/ATTACH] </p><p>Quite similar to the illustration.&nbsp; Now look at the Ruckser coin upside down:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1450316[/ATTACH] </p><p>That&#039;s clearly the same type as the Leu coin!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1450318[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>OK, I think I&#039;m finally ready to shut up about this, you&#039;ll be glad to learn. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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