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Help to date this Ayyubid fals

Started by ttkooau, January 11, 2025, 06:37:05 AM

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ttkooau

Hello, I am back again. I too bought a small batch of coins on ebay, and  I have worked out(I think!) , that this one is an AE fals, 25mm (irregular) and 4.22 g Ayyubid, Halab mint, Al-Zahir Ghazi. I have struggled to find a date written around the outside, and I wounder if there is enough text visible for someone to make a determination.... or is it too far off flan?
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
Grant
The ox moves slowly, but the Earth is patient

aws22

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Dear ttkooau, your coin details:
Ayyubid, Emirate of Aleppo, al-Zahir Ghazi, citing the Abbasid Caliph al-Nasir Li-din Allah, AH 606/1210 AD, AE Fals, Halab (Aleppo) mint (AH 603-612/1207-1216 AD)
Obverse (First photo):
Field:
Central legend in plain and dotted octogram (eight-pointed star), dotted border:
الملك  , al-Malik
الظاهر  , al-Zahir
Margin: mint and date, in 8 segments, starting at 1 O'clock counter clockwise:
ضر \ ب \ بحل \ ب \ سنة \ ست \ ستة \ مائة  , duriba bi-Halab sanah sitt sitta mi'a (606)
Reverse (Second photo):
Field:
Central legend in plain and dotted octogram (eight-pointed star), dotted border:
الامام  , al-Imam
الناصر  , al-Nasir (referring to the Abbasid Caliph al-Nasir Li-din Allah (AH 575–622/1180–1225 AD))
Margin: Kalima:
لا اله الا الله محمد رسول الله , La Illah Illa Allah
al-Zahir Ghazi (الظاهر غازي), was the third son of Saladin (Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub). The lands that he was assigned to govern were under the control of his uncle, al-Adil I (al-Malik al-Adil Sayf al-Din abu-Bakr ibn Ayyub), who was Saladin's younger brother.
Numista N#80887

Maythem
Coin collecting has a curious name. It is also called the "Hobby of Kings".

ttkooau

Many thanks Maythem, your guidance here is most valuable. I had no idea where the date started. Now that I have 1 o'clock as the start, I can actually see several of the words (I use the word "see" quite loosely!)
 I am also quite happy that I was on the right track with the other aspects of the attribution

Kind regards
Grant
The ox moves slowly, but the Earth is patient

Figleaf

Encouragements, Grant. This is exactly what they mean when they say experience is the sum of your failures. What counts is not failing but trying again.

Peter
An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.