The Ayyubid Dynasty was founded by Saladin, one of the most famous islamic war warriors of all time. Personally, this is one of my favorite historical coins, and he interests me the most out of all islamic figures. Of course, besides Khalid ibn Walid.
Nope :( It’s incredibly rare, actually. Oddly enough there are a lot of normal Ayyubid dirhams, though.
I am just very interested in Caliphates and Arab dynasties and stumbled upon this beauty. I do hope you get your hands on it, though :)
I think the caliphates are more interesting than the coins, tbh. I have some abbasid dirhems, but when you don’t read Arabic then are a little underwhelming.
Don’t worry, I speak Arabic natively and even I can’t read most of it except the “la ilaha ila allah” in the back, you’re not missing out on much.
I have a dirhem struck under Harun ar-Rashid and with a quote by or the mention of Ja’far, which I think is pretty cool. He was the vizier who set up a paper mill in Baghdad with Chinese workers, so he had a large role in the spread of and preservation of knowledge which happened during the early Caliphates.