bby_774823 - ARTUQIDS OF MARDIN - HUSAM AL DIN YULUQ ARSLAN Dirhem
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Type : Dirhem
Date: AH. 589
Date: c. 1193
Mint name / Town : Turkestan
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 28,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 12,58 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie légèrement décentrée au droit mais joli buste. Usure régulière. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : LÉGENDE ARABE.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé et drapé de face.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LÉGENDE ARABE EN TROIS LIGNES, MILLÉSIME SUR LES BORDS EXTÉRIEURS.
Historical background
ARTUQIDS OF MARDIN - HUSAM AL DIN YULUQ ARSLAN
(1184–1195/ AH 580-591)
The Artukides were a tribe of Ouigour (Turks from Turkestan), whose chief Urtuk being the eponymous founder of a dynasty established in Dyarbakir and Mardin, strategic points on the silk road, giving access to Anatolia, to Syria, Iraq and Iran. They were eventually absorbed into the Turkmen federation of the "Black Sheep". Hosam ed din Yuluq Arslan, nicknamed the "Bald Lion", distinguished himself alongside Saladin during the battle of Hattin (1187), a severe defeat inflicted on the Crusaders which led to the fall of Jerusalem after eighty years of Latin occupation. The “Bald Lion has the Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad (Nasir el din) as his overlord, in theory, for his true overlord is Saladin..
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