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Hussulo
Can anyone help with this one? It is rather worn but an unusual shape:





Thanks in advance.
Scottishmoney
CP to Roaddevil, come in please... hysterical.gif
roaddevil
swoon.gif i can read arabic yes...but not in that state xD!! tongue.gif all i can make out is allah written in arabic in the first pic.
so yes 100% islamic related.

more info by google
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the Muwahhids, produced another oddity, a square dirham that lacked every type of identifying mark and bore nothing other than religious phrases (and just occasionally a mintname). These square coins became extremely popular and were copied by the neighboring Christians, the small Islamic state of Granada, and several states in Northern Africa including the Hafsids of Tunisia and the Marinids of Morocco.


source :- http://users.rcn.com/j-roberts/spain.htm

some examples in this link :- http://users.rcn.com/j-roberts/muw.htm
examples of the spanish christians square coins :- http://users.rcn.com/j-roberts/spa.htm

more examples can be found in the link from the source page

hope this helps huss tongue.gif
Hussulo
Thats brilliant thanks RD. bthumbsup.gif
roaddevil
anytime smile.gif
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