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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;THCoins, post: 2490911, member: 57364&quot;]Nice to see the focus on islamic coinage once again. I do not collect Islamic coinage persé, but have a lot because of my focus on the Indo-Afghan-Central Asian borderlands. For people scared off by the Arab script: i can assure you most people can learn the basics of reading the coin legends within a few months.</p><p>Most of my Islamic coins will probably be judged as a bit &quot;difficult&quot; and badly struck. Here one which is think is really pretty:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]527152[/ATTACH]</p><p>Saffarids of Sistan, Taj-ud-din Harb, 1167-1215AD. (16 mm, 3.35 gr)</p><p>(No this is not bronze disease, just a stable multi-color patina)</p><p><br /></p><p>The opening post showed a nice hemi-drachm of Tabaristan governor Umar. To illustrate the speed of the extend of the &quot;arabinization&quot; of the Persian territory at the time here another Tabaristan hemidrachm:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]527153[/ATTACH]</p><p>This is in fact a hemidrachm of the same governor Umar from Tabaristan as in the opening post. In front of his face is his name. But here it is still in the old Pahlavi script which was forced out by the introduction of the arab script.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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