CAIRO, June 3 (NNN-MENA) A research mission in Egypt has discovered the remnants of a two-room adobe-built house dating back to the era of Salahuddin al-Ayoubi and a single golden dinar of the same age in "Tel el-Sheikh Zeineddin" area in al-Shaboul district of Daqahliya governorate, Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni said.

The dinar is of a great scientific and historical value, Zahi Hawass, the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, told reporters.

Old as it is, the coin gains its importance being of the Ayoubi age when minting gold money was a rarity.

The names of leader Salahuddin al-Ayoubi and Abbasid Caliph Abul-Abbas Ahmed (575-622 AH) are engraved on the dinar.

Historically speaking, the inscribed dinar is a chronological study in Salahuddin's outreaching powers, especially after his victory over the Crusaders in the battle of Hettein in the year 583 AH, which is the same date carved on the coin.