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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 5422211, member: 74834&quot;]Nice to search in one&#039;s collection for a coin that fits in the Coin Theme Game. This is my only coin identified as minted in Ray (the ruin town near Teheran).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1235328[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Abbasid revolution, fals, Rayy, AH 12x (= about 745 AD). <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdallah_ibn_Mu%27awiya" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdallah_ibn_Mu%27awiya" rel="nofollow">Abdallah b. Mu’awiya</a> (744-747). Obv. with 6 ringlets in the edge. Rev. with countermarked portrait of Sasanian type, some lettering right. 21 mm, 3.40 gr. Cf. Album 34 auction nr. 251. &quot;ABBASID REVOLUTION: &#039;Abd Allah b. &#039;Umar, governor of Sistan, 743-748, AE fals (3.34g), NM (AH128), Album list D208 (&#039;RRR&#039;), worn host (only Fair), but with the important countermark of a Sasanian style bust without crown, facing right, with the Arabic word ja&#039;iz behind his head&quot;. See <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=27745" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=27745" rel="nofollow">Zeno 27745</a>. </p><p>This coin was in a very affordable CNG lot of rare early islamic coppers. I tried to make a clearer pic of the countermark:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1235329[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Next: another coin from the 8th century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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