I bought a lot that was described as Abbasid dirham fragments some time ago. Most of them are the standard type, but there's one that's really puzzling. It's certainly Islamic, and their are numerals on the one side (don't know which) that read 103. Assuming this is dated by the Hejira calendar, that would place it at around 721 AD. The reason that this is odd to me is that I've never seen such an old coin that was dated. I did a search for dirhams and I came upon a very good website, but I could not find any coin like it, or indeed any coin as old that was dated. My question is; does anyone know of any dated Dirhams? If the date is correct, it would dated to the Umayyad Dynasty, Caliph Yazid Il bin 'Abd al-Malik. Sorry for my ignorance on the matter. I'm really not familiar with these coins at all. Thanks in advance for the help!
You are reading this coin wrong, it is, in fact, a hebrew coin from egypt around 700 BC. People like to pretend these coins are islamic because they hate hebrew culture. The coin SHOULD read 'samosa' and 'nan'
Ah, I see it now. If you arrange the letters a little and read it with your eyes crossed, it clearly says "The Hebrew King Diocletian".
