MADE TO ORDER: Lion and Sun - Seljuks of Rum
This listing is made to order, meaning I will make the pendant and ship within three weeks. The last three pictures in this listing are an example of what the final result will look like. Visit this page and download the Custom Order guide to all setting options (both in silver and gold).
Authentic Coin - Set in 18k gold. The coin measures about 22 mm in width and 25 mm top to bottom (see picture with a US quarter for scale).
Seljuks of Rum, Silver Dirhem Ghiyah ad-Din Kay Khusraw II
Obverse: Lion advancing right with personification of the sun above with crescent on left, three stars around
Reverse: Name and title in four lines with mint and date in margins
Mint: 1236 - 1246 AD
The Sultanate of Rum or Rum Seljuk Sultanate was a Turko-Persian Sunni Muslim ruled state, established over conquered Byzantine territories and peoples (Rûm) of Anatolia by the Seljuk Turks following their entry into Anatolia after the Battle of Manzikert (1071 AD). The most interesting of all Seljuk dirhems are those of Kai-Khusru II. This sultan was madly in love with his beautiful Georgian wife, and he wanted to put her portrait on his coins; but, this not being approved of by his advisers, he put his wife’s horoscope on his coins instead - the Sun in Leo. Or so the story goes.
This listing is made to order, meaning I will make the pendant and ship within three weeks. The last three pictures in this listing are an example of what the final result will look like. Visit this page and download the Custom Order guide to all setting options (both in silver and gold).
Authentic Coin - Set in 18k gold. The coin measures about 22 mm in width and 25 mm top to bottom (see picture with a US quarter for scale).
Seljuks of Rum, Silver Dirhem Ghiyah ad-Din Kay Khusraw II
Obverse: Lion advancing right with personification of the sun above with crescent on left, three stars around
Reverse: Name and title in four lines with mint and date in margins
Mint: 1236 - 1246 AD
The Sultanate of Rum or Rum Seljuk Sultanate was a Turko-Persian Sunni Muslim ruled state, established over conquered Byzantine territories and peoples (Rûm) of Anatolia by the Seljuk Turks following their entry into Anatolia after the Battle of Manzikert (1071 AD). The most interesting of all Seljuk dirhems are those of Kai-Khusru II. This sultan was madly in love with his beautiful Georgian wife, and he wanted to put her portrait on his coins; but, this not being approved of by his advisers, he put his wife’s horoscope on his coins instead - the Sun in Leo. Or so the story goes.
This listing is made to order, meaning I will make the pendant and ship within three weeks. The last three pictures in this listing are an example of what the final result will look like. Visit this page and download the Custom Order guide to all setting options (both in silver and gold).
Authentic Coin - Set in 18k gold. The coin measures about 22 mm in width and 25 mm top to bottom (see picture with a US quarter for scale).
Seljuks of Rum, Silver Dirhem Ghiyah ad-Din Kay Khusraw II
Obverse: Lion advancing right with personification of the sun above with crescent on left, three stars around
Reverse: Name and title in four lines with mint and date in margins
Mint: 1236 - 1246 AD
The Sultanate of Rum or Rum Seljuk Sultanate was a Turko-Persian Sunni Muslim ruled state, established over conquered Byzantine territories and peoples (Rûm) of Anatolia by the Seljuk Turks following their entry into Anatolia after the Battle of Manzikert (1071 AD). The most interesting of all Seljuk dirhems are those of Kai-Khusru II. This sultan was madly in love with his beautiful Georgian wife, and he wanted to put her portrait on his coins; but, this not being approved of by his advisers, he put his wife’s horoscope on his coins instead - the Sun in Leo. Or so the story goes.
