Artuqids of Mardin - Husam al-Din Yuluq Arslan 1184-1201 AD Holding Severed Head

Description

" Time of the Crusades "
ISLAMIC
Anatolia & al-Jazira ( Post-Seljuk )
ARTUQIDS OF MARDIN
Husam al-Din Yuluq Arslan  580-597 A.H. / 1184-1200 A.D.
AE - Dirham - Bronze - 33mm.
Obverse:
Helmeted Turk seated cross-legged
, wearing chain mail,
holding sword
horizontally behind his head with one hand and with the other,
severed helmeted head
held by the plume; ornament in exergue; all within a beaded circle.
Reverse:
Three-line legend in transitional Kufic in the center bearing the name and title of the Abbasid Caliph al-Nasir within a small solid circle, surrounded by two concentric circular legends separated by a solid circle beginning around 1 o'clock and read from the inside. bearing in the inner circle title, names and nasab of two Ayyubid overlords - the brothers al-Malik al-Afzal'Ali b. Yusuf and al-Malik al-Zahir Ghazi b. Yusuf - and in the outer circle the laqabs, ism and nasab of the Artuqid ruler and the date; all within a beaded circle.
* VERY INTERESTING MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC COIN WITH A BEHEADING SCENE,
IS SPECULATED THE POSSIBILITY OF BEING THE HEAD OF A CRUSADER, SCARCE COIN FROM XII CENTURY !
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