Anatolia & Al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk), Zangids Æ Dirham. Contemporary imitation, temp. Nur al-Din Mahmud, AH 541-569 = AD 1146-1173. Two figures standing facing holding between them labarum on three steps / Male figure (Christ?), nimbate, standing to left, extending his right hand and placing his left on hip; OCMO (sic) to right, VOXѠ (sic) to left. For prototype, cf. S&S Type 73; Album 1850 note; for similar, cf. Tauler & Fau 111, 6198. 3.17g, 23mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
Album suggests that imitations such as this may have been struck by one of the Crusader states (p. 200).