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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 4853627, member: 82322&quot;][ATTACH=full]1172038[/ATTACH] </p><p>CNG describes the obverse in the catalogs as &quot;Seated Turk holding sword and severed head (Mars); name of Nur al-Din replaced with floret in left field / Four line legend within double marginal legend, citing the Abbasid caliph al-Nasir and two Ayyubid overlords.&quot;</p><p>Sayles and Spengler explain that it is not the god Mars, but &quot;an astrological representation of the planet Mars.&quot; This idea of an astrological representations on these coins was first suggested in 1875 by Lane-Poole.</p><p>The floret described as a &quot;rose spray&quot; may be something else (poppies?)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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