KG Unidentified Islamic 1a Unidentified Islamic 1a Date: 10/07/2007 This coin is 17 mm in diameter.
KG Unidentified Islamic 1b Unidentified Islamic 1b Date: 10/07/2007
KG Unidentified Islamic 2a Unidentified Islamic 2a Date: 10/07/2007 This coin is 25 mm in diameter. This side is much thicker in the center than it is at the circumference.
KG Unidentified Islamic 2b Unidentified Islamic 2b Date: 10/07/2007 This side of the coin is flat.
KG Unidentified Islamic 3a Unidentified Islamic 3a Date: 10/07/2007 This coin is 20 mm in diameter. I've substantially exaggerated the brightness of the images, to make them easier to read.
KG Unidentified Islamic 3b Unidentified Islamic 3b Date: 10/07/2007
KG Unidentified Islamic 4a Unidentified Islamic 4a Date: 10/07/2007 This coin is 21 mm in diameter and is uniformly thin.
KG Unidentified Islamic 4b Unidentified Islamic 4b Date: 10/07/2007
KG Unidentified Islamic 5a Unidentified Islamic 5a Date: 10/07/2007 This coin is 13 mm in diameter. I've tweaked the images of both sides in order to make them easier to read.
KG Unidentified Islamic 5b Unidentified Islamic 5b Date: 10/07/2007
KG Semi-identified Ottoman Egyptian This coin is 17 mm in diameter and a full 5 mm thick. Date: 10/06/2007 Mr. Jensen of Copenhagen has helped us identify this as a mangyr from Ottoman Egypt. It has a characteristic knot pattern and probably dates from the early 1600s.
KG Semi-identified Ottoman Egyptian 6b Date: 10/06/2007
KG Unidentified Islamic 7a Unidentified Islamic 7a Date: 10/07/2007 This coin is 15 mm in diameter and has traces of silvering.
KG Unidentified Islamic 7b Date: 10/06/2007
NE1a Neal Evans 1a Date: 10/11/2007 Neal Evans 1a
NE1b Neal Evans 1b Date: 10/11/2007 Neal Evans 1b
NE2a Neal Evans 2a Date: 10/11/2007 Neal Evans 2a
NE2b Neal Evans 2b Date: 10/11/2007 Neal Evans 2b
NE3a Neal Evans 3a Date: 10/11/2007 Neal Evans 3a
NE3b Neal Evans 3b Date: 10/11/2007 Neal Evans 3b
NE4a Neal Evans 4a Date: 10/11/2007 Neal Evans 4a
NE4b Neal Evans 4b Date: 10/11/2007 Neal Evans 4b
Unidentified Artuqid Unidentified Artuqid Date: 10/21/2007 This coin is 26 mm. in diameter. The obverse appears to have a facing bust. One possible explanation for the surviving diagonal line running from lower left to upper right (much more obvious on the coin than in the scan) is that it is the remnant of a scepter, as seen in some copper dirhams of Kutb al-Din Sukman II (581-597 AH/1185-1200 AD). It looks as though there is a date on the obverse at left. The reverse has four (or five?)lines of Kufic script, as well as something that looks like more script running from approximately 8 to 11 o'clock just inside the double rim. I am struck by the resemblance to another of our coins, a sixth-century Byzantine coin, which is pictured below. If the coin pictured here is an Artuqid based on a coin of Justinian I, then a similar Artuqid resembling that of a slightly later Byzantine emperor doesn't seem all that unlikely. Update: It's now been suggested to me that by rotating the image 45 degrees clockwise, one can get an image that resembles the sitting or kneeling caliphs pictured on some Ayyubid and Artuqid coins.
Byzantine Follis, Tiberius II, shown for comparison obverse shows Tiberius in consular robes wearing crown with cross, holding mappa and eagle-tipped scepter. Date: 10/21/2007
KG Unidentified Indian Islamic 1 KG Unidentified Indian Islamic 1 Date: 10/28/2007 19 mm. diameter; 4 mm. thick. Bought in Delhi; described as "Persian" by seller.
KG Unidentified Indian Islamic 2 KG Unidentified Indian Islamic 2 Date: 10/28/2007 19 mm. diameter; 8 mm. thick. Bought in Delhi; described as "Persian" by seller. Very thick, heavy flan.
KG Unidentified Indian Islamic 3 KG Unidentified Indian Islamic 3 Date: 10/28/2007 19 mm. diameter; 4 mm. thick. Bought in Delhi; described as "Persian" by seller. Image has been brightened to show detail.
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