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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 4974275, member: 74834&quot;]That&#039;s exactly what I&#039;m collecting: <i>Interesting Coins!</i> I&#039;m going for the beauties, but also for the beasts. I have many dozens of Interesting Coins. Lying awake in the morning, I kept pondering which - but like [USER=89687]@ominus1[/USER] , my favorites keep changing all the time. </p><p><br /></p><p>Medieval islamic coins form a big part of my collection, and I&#039;m all the time searching for islamic coins with pictures, especially of animals. Here are some animals you don&#039;t see every day in the streets: dragons! With large biting jaws, of the twelfth century. And it&#039;s a great question what type of dragons they are: the benevolent or the malicious kind?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1195345[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Well, it took me and friends some hours of <a href="http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php/topic,47797.msg298866.html#msg298866" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php/topic,47797.msg298866.html#msg298866" rel="nofollow">blissful puzzling</a> to find out these dragons probably are benevolent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinn" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinn" rel="nofollow">jinns</a> that are there to protect the sultan, in this case Sultan Sanjar of the Great Seljuq dynasty (512-552 AH = 1118-1157 AD), arguably one of the mightiest rulers of that dynasty. Probably because he had some little help of these dragons. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1195346[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>You find them on the top and bottom of the right picture, the reverse of this gold dinar, minted in Herat (Persia). 24.5 mm, 3.86 gr. Album 1687.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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