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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Zuhara, post: 853282, member: 23099&quot;]<a href="http://www.cointalk.com/attachments/72094d1270106819-abbasid-front.jpg" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/attachments/72094d1270106819-abbasid-front.jpg"><img src="http://www.cointalk.com/attachments/72094d1270106819t-abbasid-front.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a> </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/attachments/72095d1270106829-abbasid-back.jpg" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/attachments/72095d1270106829-abbasid-back.jpg"><img src="http://www.cointalk.com/attachments/72095d1270106829t-abbasid-back.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Above are images of your coin, and I have attached a Buyid coin for comparison below. I cannot make a positive identification of this coin, because I cannot read enough of it. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The first image above is the reverse of your coin, and it reads, &quot;Mohammed rasul ...&quot; etc. The last line on this side cites the caliph Al-Ta&#039;i. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The second image above is the obverse of your coin, and it reads, &quot;la illaha ...&quot; etc. The second to last line should have the ruler&#039;s name, but I can&#039;t read it. The last line may read, &quot;Abu Shuja&quot;, which was one of the titles of Adud al-Dawla, which is why I think it <b>might</b> be his. The mint and the date would be part of the marginal inscriptions, which I cannot make out at all. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>To identify this for sure, you will have to find someone who can read it from a photograph (you can try the Islamic coins group) or, since you have the coin in front of you, you can try comparing it to pictures of Buyid coins on the web. This will take some searching. Good luck! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://users.rcn.com/j-roberts/buw.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://users.rcn.com/j-roberts/buw.htm" rel="nofollow">http://users.rcn.com/j-roberts/buw.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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