Saladin, Gold Dinar, al-Qahira, AH 585. circa 1750

circa 1750

silver wedding anniversary 1925

rarer mint mark of which George Holloway only recorded nine examples of the combination in his collecting lifetime

all within shallow incuse square

raised K on ground-line

Saladin, Gold Dinar, al-Qahira, AH 585. circa 1750Ayyubid, al Nasir Salah al Din Yusuf I, Saladin, (AH 564 589 1169 93 AD), gold Dinar, al Qahira, AH 585, two marginal inscriptions, and a central inscription in two lines, on both obverse and reverse, naming the Abbasid caliph al Nasir, as commander of the faithful in the inner obverse marginal legend, and, on the reverse naming Saladin in the inner marginal legend as, 'dil, al malik, 'lim, salah al din, with "triskeles" above 'dil and 'lim, and in