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Dirham - Salah al-Din Yusuf Saladin

Dirham - Salah al-Din Yusuf (Saladin) - obverseDirham - Salah al-Din Yusuf (Saladin) - reverse

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Features

Issuer Ayyubid Emirate of Aleppo (Ayyubid Sultanate)
Type Standard circulation coins
Years 579-588 (1183-1192)
Calendar Islamic (Hijri)
Value 1 Dirham (0.7)
Currency Dinar (1183-1260)
Composition Silver
Weight 3 g
Diameter 20 mm
Thickness 1 mm
Shape Round
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Issued 1183
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
566519
References Album Islamic# 788
Stephen Album; 2011. A Checklist of Islamic Coins (3rd Edition). Self-published, Santa Rosa, California, United States.

Obverse

Four line inscription within six-pointed star with beaded frame. Additional inscription in the six corners.

Script: Arabic

Translation:
Imam al-Nasir li-din Allah, Commander of the Believers
There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah’ in Arabic

Reverse

Four line inscription within six-pointed star with beaded frame. Additional inscription with mint and date in the six corners.

Script: Arabic

Translation:
King al-Nasir Salah al-Din Yusuf son of Ayyub
Struck in Halab in the year

Mint

Haleb, modern-day Aleppo, Syria

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
579 (1183) 
580 (1184) 
581 (1185) 
582 (1186) 
584 (1188) 
585 (1189) 
587 (1191) 
588 (1192) 

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