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Dirham - al-Nasir Salah al-Din Yusuf - Saladin Egypt and Syria - Artuqid prototype
| Issuer | Ayyubid Sultanate of Egypt |
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| Year | 1174-1193 |
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| Currency | Dinar (1169-1254) |
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| Obverse description | Central effigy of a seated male ruler depicted in full-face orientation, enthroned cross-legged upon a low, square-backed throne surmounted by two pinnacles at the upper corners, rendered in the figural Artuqid tradition. The figure wears a turban and is shown holding a globus or orb in the raised left hand, while the right hand rests upon the thigh in a formal, authoritative pose. The composition is characteristic of the Byzantine-influenced iconographic style adopted by early Ayyubid and Artuqid copper coinage, with the enthronement scene filling the central field. The Arabic legend naming the ruler al-Malik al-Nasir Salah al-Dunya wa'l-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub is distributed in the surrounding field or marginal band. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Saladin's copper dirhams present a persistent attribution puzzle: many of his issues directly imitate Artuqid types from southeastern Anatolia, reflecting the political reality that his early campaigns required coalition-building with Turkoman lords whose coinage formats carried local legitimacy. The Artuqid prototype connection here is not stylistic borrowing — it signals deliberate administrative accommodation of regional monetary habits as Saladin consolidated control over a fragmented inheritance.