Saladin, Gold Dinar, Struck in the Year of the Siege of Jerusalem, al-Iskandariya, AH 583. made from two pieces of

made from two pieces of metal joined around the perpendicular 5

HOSTILIVS / SASERNA

Twentieth Ounce and Fortieth Ounce respectively of fine gold

Tiberius (A

(Bull EGC 726

Saladin, Gold Dinar, Struck in the Year of the Siege of Jerusalem, al-Iskandariya, AH 583. made from two pieces ofAyyubid, al Nasir Salah al Din Yusuf I, Saladin, (AH 564 589 1169 93 AD), gold Dinar, al Iskandariya, AH 583, two marginal inscriptions, and a central inscription in two lines, on both obverse and reverse, naming the Abbasid caliph al Nasir, as commander of the faithful in the inner obverse marginal legend, and, on the reverse naming Saladin in the inner marginal legend as, al 'dil, al malik, al 'lim, salah al din, and in two lines at the centre, as