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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 4521196, member: 96898&quot;]<font size="3"><font size="4">The Postumus is splendid! A great portrait and the reverse shows better engraving and strike than most. Good catch – had I seen this before you did, I&#039;d have pressed the &quot;buy&quot; button within seconds.</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3"><font size="4">As you know, I&#039;m mainly a medieval collector. During the quarantine, I&#039;ve become a bit more interested in &quot;Eastern&quot; medieval coins connected to the Mongol conquests (maybe I should post a write-up at some point?), and I have started teaching myself to read Arabic legends using Richard Plant&#039;s wonderful book &quot;Arabic Coins and How to Read Them&quot;. With Album&#039;s &quot;Checklist&quot; now being online as well as the great zeno.ru website, it&#039;s become a lot easier to learn about this material. I&#039;m still an absolute beginner in this field, though.</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3"><font size="4">Here are some of my most interesting recent purchases:</font></font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">[ATTACH=full]1120047[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="3">Great Mongols, under Genghis (Chingiz) Khan or slightly later, BI jital, 1220s/1230s AD, Nimruz (Sistan) mint. Obv: &quot;Qa’an / al-‘adil&quot; (&#039;the just khan&#039;). Rev: &quot; zarb / Nimruz&quot; (&#039;struck in Nimruz&#039;). 14.5mm, 3.42g. Ref: Tye -; Album A1973.</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">[ATTACH=full]1120048[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="3">Seljuq Sultanate of Rum, Kaykhusraw II, citing caliph al-Mustansir, AR dirham, 1241–1242 AD (639 AH), Qunya (Konya) mint. Obv: Kufic legend citing caliph: &quot;al-imam al-Mustansır billah amir al-mu&#039;minin;&quot; lion r. with sunface above. Rev: name and titles of Kaykhusraw II in Naskh: &quot;as-sultan al-azam / ghiyath al-dunya wa ud-din / kay khusraw bin kay qubadh;&quot; around, mint and date: &quot;duriba bi-quniyat / sanat tis&#039; / thelathin sittm&#039;iat.&quot; 23mm, 2.97g. Ref: Album 1218.</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">[ATTACH=full]1120046[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="3">Ilkhanate, under Arghun with Ghazan as viceroy, AR dirham, 1291–1292 AD (690–691 AH), Astarabad mint. Obv: Uyghur protocol in three lines, two above hawk and one below: &quot;[qaghanu]/ nereber/ deletkeguluksen(?)&quot; (&#039;of the Khaqan / in the name of / struck&#039;); Arabic name of the ruler Arghun in central l. field; citing his heir Ghazan in r. field; hawk r., sunface rising behind. Rev: Shiite kalima in three lines in square: &quot;la ilah illa allah / muhammad rasul allah / ali waliun allah&quot;, partial mint and date formula for Astarabad in margins. Ref: Album 2149.2. 17.5mm, 2.93g.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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