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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Quant.Geek, post: 5952509, member: 74799&quot;]Here is another type with Mardin Hoard countermarks #10 and #17:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/36484/Sear-1901%28Countermarked%29.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b> Byzantine Empire: Æ Anonymous Class K Follis, Attributed to Alexius I Comnenus (Sear 1901; DOC K.1) </b></p><p>Obv: Bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, and raising right hand in benediction; in left hand, book of Gospels; to left, IC; to right, XC. Border of large pellets; Mardin Hoard Countermark #10 (عدل‎) and #17 (لله)</p><p>Rev: Three-quarter length figure of the Virgin orans facing, nimbate, wearing pallium and maphorium; to left of nimbus, M; to right, Θ</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/36484/Album-1863_1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b> Zangids of al-Mawsil: Mas&#039;ud I (1180-1193) Æ Dirham, al-Jazira, 577 AH (Album 1863.1) </b></p><p>Obv: Head to left wearing crested helmet, Arabic inscription anti-clockwise beginning behind head, all enclosed by beaded circle; لا ـ اله الا الله محمد رسول الله (<i>There is no god but God, Muḥammad is the messenger of God</i>)</p><p>Rev: Arabic inscription in field, enclosed by beaded circle, enclosed by Arabic inscription anti-clockwise around in margin, all enclosed by beaded circle; امير المؤمنين / الناصر لدين / الله عز الدين / مسعود (<i>Commander of the Believers, al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh, ’Izz al-Dīn Mas‘ūd</i>); بسم الله ضرب بالجزيرة سنة سبع و سبعين و خمسمائة (<i>In the name of God, struck in al-Jazīra in the year 577</i>)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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