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<p>[QUOTE="TuckHard, post: 4590896, member: 102653"]This thread has been really interesting and eye-opening for me, I don't know much about Central Asia but the period during the Silk Road trade between Tang China and the Abbasid Caliphate is really interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a similar show of Arab influence into foreign markets through coinage, here is a tin dirham imitation.</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1136706[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center">Ex. Kenny Ong</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is from Sumatra and the time period is not known, but it was discovered with a handful of other similar Arabic influenced tin imitations along with one legitimate silver Abbasid dirham dated to 801 AD. In my research I've found maybe a dozen or less different types of local Sumatran imitations of Arabic dirhams, many with only a unique example surviving like the one above. This coin shows an even cruder Kalima on either side with an odd double line border circling it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TuckHard, post: 4590896, member: 102653"]This thread has been really interesting and eye-opening for me, I don't know much about Central Asia but the period during the Silk Road trade between Tang China and the Abbasid Caliphate is really interesting. As a similar show of Arab influence into foreign markets through coinage, here is a tin dirham imitation. [CENTER][ATTACH=full]1136706[/ATTACH] Ex. Kenny Ong[/CENTER] The coin is from Sumatra and the time period is not known, but it was discovered with a handful of other similar Arabic influenced tin imitations along with one legitimate silver Abbasid dirham dated to 801 AD. In my research I've found maybe a dozen or less different types of local Sumatran imitations of Arabic dirhams, many with only a unique example surviving like the one above. This coin shows an even cruder Kalima on either side with an odd double line border circling it.[/QUOTE]
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