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Byzantium
AV Solidus ND struck 741-55AD
Cons. Mint
Constantine V Copronymus/ Leo IV

 

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Byzantium again....
AV Solidus ND
Cons. Mint
Philippicus Bardanes 711-13

 

Byzantium
AV Tremissis ND
Syracuse Mint
Constantine V and Leo IV "the Khazar" 751-75AD

 

Byzantium
AV Solidus ND
Cons. Mint
Anastasius II Artemius 713-15

 

Abbasis Caliphate
AV Dinar AH158 (775AD)
Madinat al-Salam mint
Caliph al-Mansur

 

Some beautiful coinage so far, really enjoying seeing these.
Now, it is 800CE-900CE.

 

Byzantium
AV Solidus ND
Cons. Mint
Basil I "the Ma cedonian" and Constantine VII 867-86AD

 

Byzantium
AV Solidus ND
Cons. Mint
Nicephorus + Stauricus 802-10AD

 

Byzantium
AV Solidus ND
Cons. Mint
Nicephorus + Stauricus 802-10AD View attachment 1542196

 

One I forgot from 600-699AD
Post Gupta
Ratas of Samatata
AV Dinara ND
Sridharanarata 664-75

 

Byzantium
AV Tremissis ND
Syracuse Mint
Theophilus 867-86AD

 

Byzantium
Pretty crowded....
AV Solidus ND Struck 792/3AD/ Irene ruled till 802AD
Cons. Mint
Irene/ Constantine VI
Leo III/ Leo IV/ Constantine V

 

Islamic, Samanids, Isma’il b. Ahmad, AH 279-295 / AD 892-907, AE fals (3.12gm), al-Shash (modern Tashkent in Uzbekistan), AH 280 (AD 893/4).

The Samanid dynasty was of Persian origin. They were at first governors for the 'Abbasid caliph in the east but soon asserted effective independence, one of the first major dynasties to do so.

Legends...

OC: la ilah illa / Allah wahdahu / la sherikh lahu ("there is no god but Allah alone; there are no others with Him"). Triple obverse margin. OM1: bism Allah zarb haza al-fils bi’l-Shash sanat themanin wa thelath mi’at ("in the name of Allah was struck this fals at al-Shash in the year eighty and two hundred"); OM2: mimma amara beh al-amir Isma’il bin Ahmad atal Allah biqah ("by his authority, the amir Isma'il bin Ahmad, may Allah prolong his reign"). OM3: Qur’an XXX:4 ("to Allah belongs the authority before and after; and that day the believers will rejoice").

RC: lillah / Muhammad / rassul / Allah / al-amir Isma’il / a’zza Allah ("to Allah; Muhammad is the apostle of Allah; the amir Isma'il, may Allah bless him"). RM: Qur'an 9:33 ("Muhammad is the apostle of Allah, who has sent him with guidance and the religion of truth, making it prevail over all others, even to the dismay of the polytheists").

 

8th century?
All I have to show is this modest follis from Syracuse:


Constantine V Copronymos - follis from Syracuse (741-775)
Obv.: Busts of Constantine V and Leo IV facing, to the left K, to he right ΛEON
Rev.: [ΛEON] / ΔEC[Π] , bust of Leo III facing, holding cross potent.

 

Now we move on to 900CE-1000CE.

 

Byzantium
Nicephorus II 963-69
AV Solidus ND
Constantinople Mint

 

Abbasid Caliphate/ Yemen
Caliph al-Qadir 932-34AD
AV Dinar AH320
San'a Mint

 

Abbasid Caliphate/
AV Dinar AH321
Madinat al-Salam Mint
Caliph al-Qahir 932-34AD

 

Here's an interesting 10th-century coin from Central Asia, known as "proto-Qarakhanid". The coin is a Chinese-style cash (23mm, 3.49gm) with legends in Arabic Kufic script. The exact issuer is unknown but these coins are believed to belong to one of the Turkic tribes in the region known in Russian as Semirechye ("Seven Rivers") and in Chinese as Zhetysu, the lands south and east of Lake Balkhash. Stylistically, the proto-Qarakhanid pieces fit between the Chinese-style cash coins of the Turgesh Qaganate, inscribed with Sogdian legends, and the coins of the Qarakhanids, traditional post-reform Islamic issues. The first three elements of the legend, read clockwise from 12h, are interpreted by most as ملك (malik "king") / ارام (aram, a personal name?) / يينال (yinal, a well-attested Turkic title). The last at 9 o'clock is more difficult, read variously as خيغ (chig), قيغ (qayig) and قرغ (qarag). Despite the ambiguity, this last word does seem to be a Turkic tribal ethnonym. Indeed, the first example reported in the literature (only a few decades ago) was found in excavations of a settlement known as Chigil ("place of the Chig", a historic Turkic tribe) near modern Taraz in Kazakhstan. The 10th-century date is based on the style of the script and is about as close as can be estimated at present. Kamyshev 49; Album 1510P; cf. Zeno 962.