Originally issued as part of a four coin gold proof set
in original Royal Mint wooden box
Small spot of verdigris above head
Second Punic War Issue (c
Obverse die slightly worn
Ayyubid, Saladin, gold Dinar, al-Qahira, AH 583. Originally issued as part ofAyyubid, al Nasir Salah al Din Yusuf I, Saladin, (AH 564 589 1169 93 AD), gold Dinar, al Qahira, AH 583, two marginal inscriptions, and an 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, and in two lines at the centre, Yusuf ibn Ayyub ["Joseph" son of "Job"], 4. 26g (A 785. 2).