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Greece/Seleucid/Posthumous Philip I Philadelphos Circa 69-57 BCE


AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 15.08 g, 12h). Antioch mint.  possibly Philip II Barypous? BCE 67/66

SC 2488.6 

O: Diademed head right within fillet border 

R:  Zeus Nikephoros seated left; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩ[Σ] ΦΙΛΙΠΠOV in two lines on the r., ΕΠΙΦAΝΟVΣ ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦOV in two lines on l. 
inner left control Φ, static control under throne, and T in ex. all within laurel wreath border.

Cf. Petr Vesely's discussion of this type  http://www.seleukidtraces.info/collection/philip_ii.html#p_2


ISLAMIC/Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk) Artuqids of Mardin, Nasir ad-Din Artuq Arslan CE 1201-1239/AH 597-637


Æ Dirham, 7.54 g, 27mm, 11h. AH 620 = CE 1223-1224 no mint.

Album, Checklist 1830.7
S&S Type 43

O: Julio-Claudian-style bare head right. Arabic inscription around al-Malik al-Mansur Nasir-adunya waddin Artuq Arslan 

R: around duriba sannah/’ishrin/wa sittami’yah
 Inner in five lines:  an-Nasir li-din Allah
                            Amir al-Mu’minin
                           Al-Malik al-Kamil
                           Nasiraddin Muhammad
                          Bin Ayyub
(Names and titles of Abbasid caliph and Ayyubid overlord in five lines)