Saladin, Gold Dinar, al-Qahira, AH 589. gold proof four-coin Set

gold proof four-coin Set

bare head left with raised BM for Bertram Mackennal on truncation

Usual flawed planchet at top of obverse for this variety

with the inscription 'ONE OUNCE FINE GOLD BRITANNIA 1988' by designer Philip Nathan

Touratsoglou 52-3)

Saladin, Gold Dinar, al-Qahira, AH 589. gold proof four-coin SetAyyubid, al Nasir Salah al Din Yusuf I, Saladin, (AH 564 589 1169 93 AD), gold Dinar, al Qahira, AH 589, 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