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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 8242939, member: 84744&quot;]That is a very cool mint!&nbsp; And an excellent brief writeup, as usual... permission to steal? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a few related coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1451201[/ATTACH] </p><p>^ This dirham was issued by &#039;Abd Allah b. Mu&#039;awiya during the Abbasid revolution, in Jayy.&nbsp; He was Ali&#039;s great grand-nephew and the leader of the Aliids, who were also disaffected from the Umayyads.&nbsp; He ended up controlling large portions of Persia while the Abbasids were rebelling in Khorasan.&nbsp; Just after this coin was issued, though, Marwan II sent an army against him and crushed him.&nbsp; He fled to the Abbasids but they executed him, not wanting any rivals.&nbsp; He had done them a big favour though by presenting a major distraction to the Umayyad government, enabling the Abbasids to triumph in the end.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1451204[/ATTACH] </p><p>^ This dirham was issued by al-Saffah in the year the Abbasid caliphate was founded, 132H, in the new capital you mentioned, Kufa.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1451205[/ATTACH] </p><p>^ And here&#039;s my al-Mansur.&nbsp; It&#039;s a bit beat up, but I haven&#039;t found a replacement yet, which would be an earlier issue from Baghdad.&nbsp; This is from 148h, the third year of the mint&#039;s operation.&nbsp; I&#039;d like to get one from 146. (147 is very rare - so this is the earliest cheap one you can get.&nbsp; I paid 10 bucks. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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