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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 3297486, member: 93416&quot;]We can get&nbsp; few clues from surviving text (written by Narshakhi) mostly about the coins of Bukhara at about the same date (c. 775 AD).&nbsp; Writing in Arabic, he seems (?) to refer to versions of the coin you picture and call them &quot;dirhems&quot;.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>He writes of other local coins of Bukhara at that time and called those local coins Ghidrifi, but also &quot;dirhems&quot;.&nbsp; Actually from the types those were clearly derivatives of the Sasanid drachms.&nbsp; So I would say in one &#039;scientific&#039; sense they were&nbsp; drachms.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In the same way, I guess in a scientific sense these Sogdian pieces might well be classed with (reduced) tetradrachms - but I suspect the Arab speakers would actually call them &quot;dirhems&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>But if so - I think it fair to say the arabic speakers would not call them dirhems because the coins were dirhems.&nbsp; More like, they would call them dirhems because they spoke arabic.....</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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