Saladin, Gold Dinar, al-Qahira, AH 586. Coventry mint

Coventry mint

otherwise extremely fine with a pleasing portrait

12h (Le Rider

clear date and regnal year

This was a one year type sovereign

Saladin, Gold Dinar, al-Qahira, AH 586. Coventry mintAyyubid, al Nasir Salah al Din Yusuf I, Saladin, (AH 564 589 1169 93 AD), gold Dinar, al Qahira, AH 586, 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