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Abbasid Caliphate
Medinat al-Salam.(Baghdad, Iraq)
Harun Al-Rashid (763-809 AD)
AR Dirham 22 mm x 2.96 grams
Struck AH 193 (809 AD)
Obverse: "There is no God except Allah alone. He has no partner" in the central field, "In the name of Allah this dirhem was struck at Medinat al-Salam in the year one hundred ninety three" in the margins
Reverse: "Allah is one, Allah is eternal. He begets not neither is he begotten" in the central field, "Mohamed is the profet if Allah whom he sent with guidance and the religion of truth that he may make it victorious over every other religion. Minted in 193 AH = 809 AD.
Ref: Lavoix 843.

 

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Man, I own like 20 of these things and have no idea who minted them, let alone all of that. I have the books for them, just cannot seem to give a crud about them.

I am kind of getting into Artuqid figural bronzes again. I picked up tworking large ones recently, and really dig the designs.

 

You got 20 of everything.

 

Lol, no, but I wish. There was a seller on Ebay once who happened to live in MN. He had a large group of Abassid and Ummayad coins. I just kept buying groups as he had them. Bought about 40 total, and Sassanid and Parthis as well. You might remember that group of Sassanid and ParthIan I post here a couple of year before, same seller.

 

Luckily you live on another continent, we seem to have much overlap in targets of interest:

 

Reading Arabic coins is a challenge. I found this book:
Plant, Richard. Arabic Coins and How to Read Them. 1973. Hardcover
to be very useful. It is cheap on Kindle, but the fixed-price sites I found today think it is expensive. It will go for much less if you find it on eBay.

 

Nice one. I got this exact same coin recently. The one thing missing in pics is size, these are really large, impressive coins. I was lucky, a dealer had just bought them so I got this one for $35, a nice bargain.

Imagine how much fun we would have though if we live close to each other! I can live wit competition for coins, I have enough.

 

I agree, either ebay or numismatic book auction. From those sources it runs $20 softcover, hardcover a little more.

Also a needed book for these is Steve Album great book. The latest edition runs around $50 softcover.

 

i'm startingto warm up to these islamic coins, i have one inbound now. i'll post it here when it makes it. i can't make heads or tails out of the legends, but it is pretty sometimes. the artuqid coins are fantastic, i love the style. THC, that is a cool one.

here's another one i have, an artuqid coin...

 

Huh => well, I'm gonna toss-in my Islamic as well ...

Islamic, Anatolia & al-Jazira, AE Dirhem
1170-1180 AD (1171/2)
Young male w. winged figures & 5 lines of text





Oh, and the green now be gone => verdi-care to the rescue!!

 

Yeah, these are very susceptible to verdigris. You have to rrally be careful with them, and have badthad on speeddial.