Image: Coinage of al-Nasir I Salah al-Din Yusuf (Saladin). AH 564-589 AD 1169-1193. Naṣībīn mint. Dated AH 578 (AD 1182-3)

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Description: Coinage of al-Nasir I Salah al-Din Yusuf (Saladin). AH 564-589 AD 1169-1193. Naṣībīn mint. Dated AH 578 (AD 1182-3). Draped facing bust, wearing Sasanian-style merlon crown; lillah to left, al-mulk to right; mint formula and AH date in outer margin / Name and titles of Saladin in four lines within pelleted square; continuation of legend in outer margins. Whelan Type A, 261-2; Balog, Ayyubids 174; Album 791.1; ICV –. Red-brown patina, areas of weakness. Near VF. Very rare.
Title: Coinage of al-Nasir I Salah al-Din Yusuf (Saladin). AH 564-589 AD 1169-1193. Naṣībīn mint. Dated AH 578 (AD 1182-3)
Credit: Classical Numismatic Group; [1]
Author: Classical Numismatic Group
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