Saladin, Gold Dinar, Struck in the Year of the Siege of Jerusalem, al-Iskandariya, AH 583. Twentieth Ounce and Fortieth Ounce

Twentieth Ounce and Fortieth Ounce respectively of fine gold

made from two pieces of metal joined around the perpendicular 5

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Farey 1170

and one of the great rarities of the Victorian Sovereign series

Saladin, Gold Dinar, Struck in the Year of the Siege of Jerusalem, al-Iskandariya, AH 583. Twentieth Ounce and Fortieth OunceAyyubid, al Nasir Salah al Din Yusuf I, Saladin, (AH 564 589 1169 93 AD), gold Dinar, al Iskandariya, AH 583, 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, al 'dil, al malik, al 'lim, salah al din, and in two lines at the centre, as