Coin of An-Nasir Muhammad, Mamluk Sultan of Egypt and Syria, minted Damascus in 1329–30, found Warminster, Wiltshire: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/569703 …pic.twitter.com/XhknMTB762
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Coin of An-Nasir Muhammad, Mamluk Sultan of Egypt and Syria, minted Damascus in 1329–30, found Warminster, Wiltshire: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/569703 …pic.twitter.com/XhknMTB762
The 'Luck of Edenhall', a 14th-century beaker made in Mamluk-period Egypt/Syria and imported into England by the 15th century: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Luck_of_Edenhall_VandA_C.1toB-1959.jpg …pic.twitter.com/BgSIMETVCf
Quite hippie-ish. Would go well with an Afghan coat.
My thoughts too! :-D
Amazing colour preservation!
Humans love pretty things. Empires have been built on that. Thank you for bringing so many to people's attention on here 
Turk-Memluks state established by Kipcak’s and Kuman. the + sign on the bag is the Tengri (god) symbol
If I'm not mistaken,the stitch here is Herringbone, or a round ' blanket stitch', Reminds me of the technique in Gujarat in India, only we use mirrors in between & around to embellish & decorate. So,I love this for it's provenance,but not so much for the handiwork.
Oh that's beautiful. Would love one like that myself!
Exquisite!
Any quilters out there? These look a lot like "yo-yos".
Also commonly seen adorning every fledgling hippy, teamed with a Ramones or Che Guevara T-shirt, cords and converse
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I bet it still smells like patchouli :) It must have really popped with color!
Wow!! Medieval [multiple great-great-] granny squares!!! How very cool...!
Something similar can be seen in Lebanon’s national museum together with mummified bodies and writings that put them at around the same time as your coin
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