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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2870766, member: 82322&quot;][ATTACH=full]686008[/ATTACH] </p><p>ARTUQIDS OF MARDIN. HUSÂM AD-DÎN YÛLUQ-ARSLÂN. AH 596 (1199/1200 AD).&nbsp; Copper dirham.</p><p>Obv: Mars seated with sword behind his head and holding the head of the ghûl (&quot;ghoul&quot;) in his left hand.</p><p>Rev: names of the caliph, the Ayyûbids al-Afdal &#039;Alî and az-Zâhir Ghâzî, sons of Saladin, and the Artuqid.</p><p><br /></p><p>Spengler/Sayles 36.3; Album, Checklist 1829.4.</p><p>ex-Dr. Busso Peus Nachfolger, auction 382, April 2005, lot 849</p><p><br /></p><p>Sayles and Spengler explain they write that it is not the god Mars, but &quot;an astrological representation of the planet Mars.&quot; Many examples noted of manuscripts, metalworks and ceramics, have the same figure riding on a ram and they say that the ram is &quot;simply a representation of the planet&#039;s day house, Aries.&quot; This idea of an astrological representation was first suggested in 1875 by Lane-Poole.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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