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Message:: [QUOTE="THCoins, post: 4875095, member: 57364"]Rob, your remark on Alauddin's hardness prompts me to note a thought which manifested itself when i first looked at the gold specimen 1934WreathCrown posted.For this specimen has an engraving error, in the honorary title Iskandar. Iskandar in Arab should be written سکندر, with a diacritic dot above the "nun". That's how it is written on most of the specimen of the type which i have seen and also on the first bronze i posted.In this specimen, the diacritic dot is replaced by an oblique line which almost touches the top of the following "dal". Because of this, it almost looks like it reads سکنکر "Iskankar".Now probably this is all a co-incidence, but i thought it quite remarkable, for Kankar in Hindi means "limestone", an important building material. Its name probably is derived from Sanskrit "Karkara" which means "rock-hard". [/QUOTE]