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<p>[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 2955284, member: 74834"]In fact, this Norman follaro was 90 years earlier in using Arabic numerals (not writing out the year, as was usual: "seven and thirty and six hundred" for 637). It is dated 533 (= AD 1138). The earliest islamitic coin with a date in Arabic numerals was issued by the Seljugs of Rum in 622 (=1225). </p><p><br /></p><p>The date is easy to see in the right picture, lowest line. The 5 is a bit unusual, but recognizable enough. The obverse has a picture of Christ facing, and the reverse has the text in Arabic "'By order of King Roger the Magnificent, the Powerful through God". That last formula evokes the Abbasid caliph titles, especially that of the 10th century caliph Al Muqtadir, Arabic for exactly this: "the Powerful through God". This reminds some of us of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. </p><p>14 mm, 1,05 gr. Spahr 62; D'Andrea Normans 229. Grierson 197; p. 116.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]722407[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 2955284, member: 74834"]In fact, this Norman follaro was 90 years earlier in using Arabic numerals (not writing out the year, as was usual: "seven and thirty and six hundred" for 637). It is dated 533 (= AD 1138). The earliest islamitic coin with a date in Arabic numerals was issued by the Seljugs of Rum in 622 (=1225). The date is easy to see in the right picture, lowest line. The 5 is a bit unusual, but recognizable enough. The obverse has a picture of Christ facing, and the reverse has the text in Arabic "'By order of King Roger the Magnificent, the Powerful through God". That last formula evokes the Abbasid caliph titles, especially that of the 10th century caliph Al Muqtadir, Arabic for exactly this: "the Powerful through God". This reminds some of us of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. 14 mm, 1,05 gr. Spahr 62; D'Andrea Normans 229. Grierson 197; p. 116. [ATTACH=full]722407[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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