Specimen record
ayy-001
Ayy-001 Ayyubid Dynasty, al-ʿAdil Abu Bakr I (AH 592-615 / AD 1196-1218). Bronze dirham (10.00 gm, 30.00 mm), Mayyafariqin, AH 591 = AD 1195. Album 809.
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ayy-001
House record
This specimen
- Inventory no.
- ayy-001
- Weight
- 10.00 gm
- Diameter
- 30.00 mm
Type (catalogue)
- Dynasty
- Ayyubid Dynasty
- Ruler
- al-ʿAdil Abu Bakr I
- Reign
- AD 1196–1218
- Metal
- Copper
- Denomination
- Dirham
- Mint
- Mayyafariqin
- AH
- 591
- AD
- 1195
- References
- Album 809
Obverse
Facing bust, wearing a headdress and cloak; to right and left, ‘sana aḥad / tisʿīn’ (‘year [5]91’ in Arabic); around, ‘al-malik al-ʿādil Sayf al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn Ayyūb’ (‘The just king, Sayf al-Din Abu Bakr son of Ayyub’ in Arabic).
Reverse
Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Nasir li-din Allah (AH 575-622 / AD 1180-1225), ‘lā ilāha illā Allāh / waḥdahū lā shar/īka lahū al-imām / al-Nāṣir li-dīn / Allāh amīr al-muʾ/minīn’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him. Imam al-Nasir li-din Allah, Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); around, ‘ḍuriba / ʿalayh / bi Māfariqīn’ (‘Struck on it in Mayyafariqin’ in Arabic).
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