Islamic coin – HCR13116

Obverse

Inscription:

بن البي بن / تمرباش / ايل غازي / بن اربق

Design:

diademed head looking upward to right, enclosed by beaded square, Arabic inscription anti-clockwise around in segments, all enclosed by beaded circle

Reverse

Inscription:

ايل غازي / لمولانا الملك العالم / العادل قطب الدين / ملك الامرا شاه / ديار بكر

Design:

Arabic inscription in field, enclosed by beaded circle

Information

Period

Islamic

Dynasty

Artuqids

Reign

Īl-Ghāzī II, Quṭb al-Dīn (Artuqid)

Person

Īl-Ghāzī II, Quṭb al-Dīn (Artuqid), 1176 - 1184 (ruler/authority)

Mint

Unknown (Islamic)

Denomination

Dirham

Material

copper

Technique

struck

Dating

circa 572-580 AH (=AD 1176-1185)

Measurements
Acquisition
Additional information
Ticket
References
Credit

Weight (g)

11.28

Axis

Diameter (mm)

29.5

Acquisition method

gift

Acquisition date

13/12/1912

Source

A. C. Kay

Acquisition credit

Presented by A. C. Kay, 1935.

holed

Translation (obverse)

b. Alpī b. Timurtāsh al-Adīl Ghāzī b. Artuq

Script (obverse)

Arabic

Translation (reverse)

al-Adīl Ghāzī liMūlānā, the Just King of the World, Quṭb al-Dīn, King of the Princes, Shāh of Diyar Bakr

Script (reverse)

Arabic

Reference

SICA 7 : 1003

This specimen

Yes

Contributors to this coin record

TJonson