Danishmendids, north-central eastern Anatolia. Temp. Mohammed I Gumushtegin ibn Danishmend and his successors, Æ Fals. Circa AH 497-528 / AD 1104-34 or later. Facing bust of Christ / Byzantine emperor [and second figure] holding cross shaft between; pseudo Greek legend EΔΝΘ in right field. Crude Arabic legend: allah and rassoul allah. Overstruck on a fals imitating a follis of Constantine X and Eudocia (cf. DOC 8; Sear 1853). Unpublished in the standard references; for general Danishmendid types, cf. Mitchiner WOI 1007; Album 1237 and for Islamic imitative folles, cf. Mitchiner WOI 1015; Artuk 1314; for overstruck types of the period, cf. N. Lowick, S. Bendall and P. Whitting, The Mardin Hoard, 1977, passim and a detailed history of the period cf. E. J. Whelan The Public Figure, Political Iconography in Medieval Mesopotamia, London 2006, pp. 49-69. 3.75g, 21mm, 7h.
Very Fine. Very Interesting.
From a private European collection.