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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ardatirion, post: 1939343, member: 9204&quot;]How about something a bit more scarce? From modern-day Tanzania.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/18271/islamic_2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>EAST AFRICA, Kilwa Sultanate. <i>&#039;Ali bin al-Hasan.</i></b> Late 5th century AH / 11th century AD</p> <p style="text-align: center">Æ Fals (21mm, 2.68 g, 3 h). Kilwa Kisiwani mint.</p> <p style="text-align: center">Inscription in two lines; star at center</p> <p style="text-align: center">Inscription in three lines</p> <p style="text-align: center">Album 1180; Walker, <i>Kilwa</i> 12; SICA 10, 589-91; Zeno 87054 (this coin)</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">Acquired in the 1960&#039;s, likely through circulation in Dar-es-Salaam.</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">Chittick (&quot;On the Chronology of the sultans of Kilwa&quot; in <i>NC</i> 13, 1973), the excavator of Kilwa Kisiwani, notes that these issues were found in the earliest stratigraphic layers and accordingly reassigns them to the first sultan of Kilwa. Walker and Freeman-Grenville gave them to an otherwise unattested 13th century ruler of the same name. However, the picture is muddled by finds from the excavations at Songo Mnara, occupied only between the 14th and 16th centuries, where this type was among the most numerous to be found. The type is unlikely to have remained in circulation for such a long period and may been reissued by subsequent rulers.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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