Saladin, Gold Dinar, al-Qahira, AH 575. Legible name

Legible name

SNG Kayhan 862

weakly struck around centre

with 95 cypher in upper left of exergue for the Queen's 95th Birthday

six line inscription with date below

Saladin, Gold Dinar, al-Qahira, AH 575. Legible nameAyyubid, al Nasir Salah al Din Yusuf I, Saladin, (AH 564 589 1169 93 AD), gold Dinar, al Qahira, AH 575, three marginal inscriptions, and a central inscription in two lines, on both obverse and reverse, naming the Abbasid caliph al Mustadi, as commander of the faithful in the inner obverse marginal legend, and, on the reverse identifying Saladin in two lines at the centre of the reverse as Yusuf ibn Ayyub ["Joseph" son of "Job"], 4. 87g, 12h (Album