GREAT SELJUKS, Mu'iz Al-Din Abu Al-Harith Sanjar, 1118-1157, base gold dinar, gold washed as all are, S-1687, Balkh, date missing, crude, F $85.00 sold 4/20/08
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    For about a century during the Crusades Turks and Kurds in Anatolia and western Iraq struck large copper coins with figural types derived from ancient Greek and Roman coins and Byzantine types of a few centuries earlier.  One has to figure that such coins were still circulating in the region after all those centuries.  Iconography has been discouraged in most times and places of the Islamic World, but it is not actually forbidden by Islamic law.

SELJUKS OF RUM, Kayka'us I, 1210-19, copper fals, A-1213.1, MI-966, ND, NM, citing caliph Al-Nasir, F $26.50 sold 7/8/2015
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ZANGID, Qutb Al-Din Muhammad, 1197-1219, bronze dirham, A-1880.2, Sinjar, 598 AH, bust L with spear, trace of Byzantine undercoin visible, VG $24.00 sold
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ZANGID in JAZIRAH, Mu'izz Al-Din Sanjarshah, 1180-1208, bronze dirham, A-1882, 584 AH (1188 AD), head 1/4 L, aVF $85.00 sold 9/6/2007
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LU'LU'ID, Badr-ed-Din, 1233-58, gold dinar, 3.4g, A-1871, 65x AH, Mosul, crude VF $155.00  sold 4/20/08
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