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Samarkand, Soghd - Urk-Wartamuk AE Cash, ~675-696 AD

 

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This fabulous coin with its beautiful ebony patina was my first 'broad AE dirham', a Central Asian pecularity from about 1150-1250 AD. I bought it on Ebay not knowing how large it was: diameter 38 mm. It is from Banakat, now Tajikistan, of the Qarakhanid dynasty, 1206 CE. Album 3425.

 

Chaghataid dirhem, Almaligh (656-661 AH) Zeno 137557

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaliq,_Xinjiang

 

Hunnic Empire 5th century AD
Sind
AV Dinara ND
In name of Sassanian King Peroz I

 

Seljuks of Rum

 

A little to the East again: Khilat in Armenia. AR 2 dirhams Ilkhanids, Ghazan Mahmud AD 1297. Trilingual type with inscription in Mongolian (Uighur script), Chinese (Phags-Pa script), and Arabic (Kufic). 21.5 mm, 2.29 gr. Album 2173.

 

Azerbaijan - Shirvan Khanate, Shamakhi Abbasi, 1197AH (1782)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamakhi

 

Ilkhans/ Anatolian Imitation/ from small hoard.
AV Heavy Dinar/ NM/ ND
Abu Sa'id 1316-35
Baldwins Islamic Auction

 

Afghanistan - Rupee 1222 (1807)

 

Persia - Silver drachm, Parthian dynasty, Mithradates I (171-138 B.C.). Sellwood 10.1. 19 mm, 3.99 gr.

 

I see I need to acquire some of those real Silk Roads coins.

 

Parthia
AR Drachm ND Ectabana Mint
Pakoros I 78-130AD

 

Pontus

Mithradates the Great - Mithradates VI of Pontus , c 125-100BC

 

Kolchis/ Black Sea Region
AV Stater ND
Vani Mint
Struck by Eastern Celtic Tribe, Basternae
Circa 150-100BC

 

Ottoman 40 Para w Dardanelles c/s, AH1277/4 (1864)

 

Oman


AR mansuri dirham, Rassid dynasty (second period). Emir Al-Mutawakkil Ahmad, 643 AH (= 1245 AD), Zufar, also known as Dhofar, part of Oman. 24.5 mm, 1.65 gr.

 

Oman over to Sindh region

Habbari Dynasty of Sindh - 'Amirs of Sindh'
Ruling on behalf of Abbasid Caliphate
854-1011 CE
Issued under Ahmad
AR Damma; 0.51g 10mm
Ref: AS10​

 

From Sindh to Gujarat



India, Gurjara Pratiharas, (c.730-836), AR debased drachm. Obv.: Indo-Sasanian bust to r. Brahmi ‘Mi’ in front. Rev.: Stylized fire altar. 22 mm, 3.91 gr. Ref.: Mitchiner 329-332. Zeno 228636. ONS auction October 19, 2019, nr. 95.

 

Travancore
AV Fanam ND
Raja Varma Rama I 1758-98