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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 8324132, member: 99456&quot;][USER=110504]@+VGO.DVCKS[/USER], great to see this thread featured, an interesting, puzzling, gold coin.&nbsp; I did some squinting at your lettering...and I can imagine a wide range of imitated coins - I am still trying to see, reasonably, letters and cope with varitions in scripts.&nbsp; Google didn&#039;t help me:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1474893[/ATTACH]</p><p>I will add this coin:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1474771[/ATTACH]</p><p>Islamic, al-Maghreb (North Africa), Almohads (al-Muwahhidun), Anonymous Christian Imitation, 13th century AD, (AR 15x15 mm, 1.43g, 6h), a Christian imitation of an Almohad square dirham known as <i>millares</i>, uncertain mint in Spain.</p><p>legend blundered Arabic - errors in writing the name of Mohammed may have been deliberate</p><p><b>Obv:</b></p><p>No God except Allah / It&#039;s all for God / No power except God</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1474778[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Rev: </b></p><p>God is our Lord / Mohammed is our messenger / The Mahdi is before us</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1474782[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Ref: </b>Album 498</p><p><br /></p><p>The Almohadids took over Morocco, replacing the Almoravids and new coins were introduced: the dirham at 1.5 grams a silver square using Naskhi script in place of&nbsp; Kufic.&nbsp; These coins became a widespread trading currency and were copied in&nbsp; Christian Spain (and France).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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