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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stevex6, post: 2310492, member: 44183&quot;]<span style="color: #0000ff">=&gt; I always try to copy whatever Mentor does, so here are a couple of my 12th century sweeties ... </span></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000"> Islamic, Anatolia &amp; al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk),&nbsp; </span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">Zangids (al-Mawsil), Saif al-Din Ghazi II</span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">Æ Dirhem</span></b></p><p>AH 565-576 / AD 1170-1180</p><p>Dated AH 567 (AD 1171/2)</p><p>Diameter: 30 mm</p><p>Weight: 13.21 grams</p><p>Obverse: Draped young male bust facing slightly left, wearing hair in foreknot; above, winged figures flanking; AH date to right and left</p><p>Reverse: Name and titles of Saif al-Din Ghazi II in five lines and in outer margins</p><p>Reference: Whelan Type I, 174-5; S&amp;S Type 60.3; Album 1861.1</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">[ATTACH=full]465571[/ATTACH] </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">Cilician Armenia, Royal. Levon I.</span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">AR Tram (Coronation issue)</span></b></p><p><span style="color: #000000">1198-1219 AD</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Diameter: 22 mm</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Weight: 2.75 grams</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Obverse: Levon seated facing on throne decorated with lions, holding cross and lis-tipped scepter</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Reverse: Two lions rampant back-to-back, each with head reverted; between, cross pattée set on spear</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Reference: AC 289</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">[ATTACH=full]465574[/ATTACH] </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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