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1 Dirham - Husam al-Din Timurtash Mardin
| Issuer | Artuqids of Mardin |
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| Year | 1148 |
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| Reference(s) | A#1826.2 |
| Obverse description | Bust of a ruler facing right in profile, depicted in a stylized Byzantine-influenced manner within a beaded inner circle. The effigy displays curly hair rendered in a dotted or pellet style, with visible drapery at the shoulder. The portrait is set within a prominent beaded border that frames the entire design field. The artistic style reflects the Artuqid tradition of incorporating Hellenistic and Byzantine iconographic elements into Islamic coinage. |
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| Reverse description | Central field bearing a multi-line Arabic inscription arranged in three horizontal lines within a beaded inner circle, with a circular Arabic marginal legend surrounding the inner circle. The inscriptions reference the ruler Husam al-Din Timurtash and his titles, rendered in a bold, angular Kufic-influenced script characteristic of Artuqid copper coinage. The overall design is framed by an outer beaded border, consistent with the hammered fabric of the coin. |
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Timurtash ibn Il-Ghazi ruled Mardin for over four decades — an unusually long tenure for the fractious Artuqid branch — and spent much of it navigating the competing pressures of the Crusader states to the west and the Zengid expansion under Zengi and later Nur ad-Din to the north and east. His copper dirhams served the local market economy of the upper Jazira, a region where Artuqid autonomous minting persisted well after neighboring dynasties had been absorbed. The A#1826.2 attribution places this within a documented die grouping for his later reign issues.