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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hrefn, post: 7964077, member: 115171&quot;][ATTACH=full]1380802[/ATTACH]&nbsp;&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]1380804[/ATTACH]&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>A standard dinar of Haroun al Rashid is to the left, for size comparison.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Multiple dinar of the last Abbasid caliph, al-Musta’sim 1242-1258 AD, of 645 AH (1247-8 AD) MWI 266.&nbsp; This coin’s mass is 13.22 grams, exactly 3 times the mass of the theoretical dinar of 4.4 grams which equaled the Byzantine Solidus.&nbsp; Of the 17 specimens on Zeno, this outweighs them all.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=5605" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=5605" rel="nofollow">https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=5605 </a>&nbsp; Minted in the capitol, Medinat-as-Salam (Baghdad).&nbsp; In 1258 AD, the Mongols sacked the city and executed al-Musta’sim.&nbsp; Various stories are told of his death, including his being wrapped in a carpet and trampled by an elephant, to avoid shedding royal blood.&nbsp; Purchased in Boston in the early 1990’s from an unrecorded seller.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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