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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TuckHard, post: 7880231, member: 102653&quot;]This coin came to be published only in 2001 when the type surfaced and surprised experts of Islamic coins from Central Asia. Previous to this coin being published, the earliest Islamic coins believed to have been minted at al-Shash (Chach in pre-Islamic times) was dated 35 years later: 184 AH or 800-801 AD.</p><p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1358732[/ATTACH] </p> <p style="text-align: center">Abbasid Caliphate, al-Shash province of Central Asia</p> <p style="text-align: center">Issued in the name of al-Mahdi</p> <p style="text-align: center">766-767 AD | 149 AH</p> <p style="text-align: center">al-Shash Mint</p> <p style="text-align: center">AE Fals | 2.23 grams</p> <p style="text-align: center">Ref: See <i>An Unrecorded &#039;Abbasid Fals of al-Shash, AH 149, in the name of al-Mahdi</i> by Farr and Nastich in <a href="https://orientalnumismaticsociety.org/JONS/New/ONS_168.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://orientalnumismaticsociety.org/JONS/New/ONS_168.pdf" rel="nofollow">JONS 168</a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>Next: Another type (or notable variety) which was first published in the last 25 years[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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