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Dirham - Qutb al-Din Sukman II
| Issuer | Artuqids of Hisn Kayfa and Amid |
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| Year | 1198 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Reverse bearing a multi-line Arabic inscription arranged in three horizontal registers across the field, rendered in a bold Naskhi script characteristic of Artuqid coinage of the period. The text contains the ruler's titles and name along with a religious formula. A partial border legend in Arabic encircles the central inscription. The flan is irregular and the strike shows typical characteristics of hammered medieval Islamic copper coinage. |
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Qutb al-Din Sukman II ruled the Artuqid branch centered at Hisn Kayfa — the fortress city perched above the Tigris in what is now southeastern Turkey — during a period when the dynasty was navigating increasingly difficult relationships with both the Ayyubids to the south and the Seljuq successor states to the north. His copper issues are notable within the Artuqid series for their relatively ambitious weight and the dynasty's broader habit of adapting Byzantine and ancient figural iconography onto Islamic coinage, a practice rooted in the population they governed rather than any doctrinal exception.