Saladin, Gold Dinar, al-Qahira, AH 581. PIETATI AVG COS IIII

PIETATI AVG COS IIII

struck in 22ct gold to commemorate the iconic design of the fifty pence coin

P to upper right of exergue (Schneider 654

crested helmet over small arms

1st Duke of Lauderdale

Saladin, Gold Dinar, al-Qahira, AH 581. PIETATI AVG COS IIIIAyyubid, al Nasir Salah al Din Yusuf I, Saladin, (AH 564 589 1169 93 AD), gold Dinar, al Qahira, AH 581, two marginal inscriptions, and a central inscription in two lines, on both obverse and reverse, naming the Abbasid caliph al Nasir, as commander of the faithful in the inner obverse marginal legend, and, on the reverse naming Saladin in the inner marginal legend as, al 'dil, al malik, al 'lim, salah al din, and in two lines at the centre, as Yusuf