Artuqids of Mardin Akçe - al-Ṣāliḥ Ṣāliḥ I, 748

AR Akçe from Artuqids of Mardin. Issued in 748. Struck in Silver. Measures 16 mm and weighs 1.2 g.

Obverse

Title of the sovereign written on three lines in a hexalobe inscribed in a circle. Inside the different lobes, the year of minting written in full and the name of the workshop; a ringlet outside each lobe, a globule between each. Presence of a grenetis.

Reverse

Beginning of the first kalima of Islam written on two lines in a circle composed of globules; the rest of the kalima then continues around the perimeter in each field of a quatrefoil inscribed in a circle. Names of the first four caliphs written between each lobe; presence of a grenetis. (There is no god butAllahMohamed To Saul AllahAbu Bakir Omar Othman Ali)