Specimen record
art-002
Art-002 Artuqids of Mardin, Artuq Arslan (AH 597-637 / AD 1201-1239). Silver dirham (2.93 gm, 21.71 mm), Dunaysir, AH 628 = AD 1230/1. Album 1831.1.
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art-002
House record
This specimen
- Inventory no.
- art-002
- Weight
- 2.93 g
- Diameter
- 21.71 mm
Type (catalogue)
- Dynasty
- Artuqids of Mardin
- Ruler
- Artuq Arslan
- Reign
- AH 597–637 / AD 1201–1239
- Metal
- Silver
- Denomination
- Dirham
- Mint
- Dunaysir
- AH
- 628
- AD
- 1230/1
- References
- Album 1831.1
Obverse
Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Mustansir billah within a hexagram, ‘al-ʾimām / al-Mustanṣir / billāh amīr al-muʾ/minīn (‘Imam al-Mustansir billah, Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘lā ilāha / illā A/llāh / Muḥammad / rasūl / Allāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah’ in Arabic).
Reverse
Citing the Ayyubid ruler al-Kamil Muhammad I as overlord within a hexagram, ‘Muḥammad / al-malik al-Kāmil / al-malik al-Manṣūr / Urtuq’ (‘King al-Kamil Muhammad, King al-Mansur Artuq’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘ḍuriba / bi Dunaysir / sana / thamān / [wa ʿishrīn] / wa sitta miʾa ’ (‘Struck in Dunaysir in the year 628’ in Arabic).
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