KG Unidentified Islamic 1aUnidentified Islamic 1a
Date: 10/07/2007
This coin is 17 mm in diameter.
KG Unidentified Islamic 1bUnidentified Islamic 1b
Date: 10/07/2007
KG Unidentified Islamic 2aUnidentified 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 2bUnidentified Islamic 2b
Date: 10/07/2007
This side of the coin is flat.
KG Unidentified Islamic 3aUnidentified 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 3bUnidentified Islamic 3b
Date: 10/07/2007
KG Unidentified Islamic 4aUnidentified Islamic 4a
Date: 10/07/2007
This coin is 21 mm in diameter and is uniformly thin.
KG Unidentified Islamic 4bUnidentified Islamic 4b
Date: 10/07/2007
KG Unidentified Islamic 5aUnidentified 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 5bUnidentified Islamic 5b
Date: 10/07/2007
KG Semi-identified Ottoman EgyptianThis 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 7aUnidentified 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
NE1aNeal Evans 1a
Date: 10/11/2007
Neal Evans 1a
NE1bNeal Evans 1b
Date: 10/11/2007
Neal Evans 1b
NE2aNeal Evans 2a
Date: 10/11/2007
Neal Evans 2a
NE2bNeal Evans 2b
Date: 10/11/2007
Neal Evans 2b
NE3aNeal Evans 3a
Date: 10/11/2007
Neal Evans 3a
NE3bNeal Evans 3b
Date: 10/11/2007
Neal Evans 3b
NE4aNeal Evans 4a
Date: 10/11/2007
Neal Evans 4a
NE4bNeal Evans 4b
Date: 10/11/2007
Neal Evans 4b
Unidentified ArtuqidUnidentified 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 comparisonobverse shows Tiberius in consular robes wearing crown with cross, holding mappa and eagle-tipped scepter.
Date: 10/21/2007
KG Unidentified Indian Islamic 1KG 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 2KG 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 3KG 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.