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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stevex6, post: 2499885, member: 44183&quot;]<span style="color: #0000ff">Ummm curious, Sallent? ... are these Islamic coins allowed to mingle with your cool OP-coins?</span></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">ISLAMIC, Anatolia &amp; al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk),&nbsp; Zangids (al-Mawsil), Saif al-Din Ghazi II, Æ Dirhem</span></b></p><p>AH 565-576 / AD 1170-1180</p><p>Dated AH 567 (AD 1171/2)</p><p>Diameter: 30 mm</p><p>Weight: 13.21 grams</p><p>Obverse: Draped young male bust facing slightly left, wearing hair in foreknot; above, winged figures flanking; AH date to right and left</p><p>Reverse: Name and titles of Saif al-Din Ghazi II in five lines and in outer margins</p><p>Reference: Whelan Type I, 174-5; S&amp;S Type 60.3; Album 1861.1</p><p>Other: 7h … sweet brown patina</p><p>From the J.P. Righetti Collection</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]530272[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">ISLAMIC, Mongols. Ilkhanids. Arghun. AR Dirham</span></b></p><p>AH 683-690 / AD 1284-1291</p><p>Astarabad mint</p><p>Diameter: 17 mm</p><p>Weight: 2.75 grams</p><p>Obverse:</p><p>Reverse: Hawk type</p><p>Reference: Diler Ar-173; cf. Album 2149.2; ICV</p><p>Other: 2h … toned, weakly struck at periphery</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]530273[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">Seljuqs of Rum, Kaykhusraw II, Silver Dirham</span></b></p><p>Konya Mint</p><p>1241-1242 A.D. (AH639)</p><p>Diameter: 23 mm</p><p>Weight: 2.9 grams</p><p>Obverse:&nbsp; Sun and Lion</p><p>Other: so cool</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]530270[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]530271[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">either way ... thanks for the opportunity to post &#039;em</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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