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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TuckHard, post: 5195630, member: 102653&quot;]I had to have help with this one, but I had my old Arabic copper coin ID&#039;d! It is super worn and came in a lot. Album describes the coin as one of the most popular early Islamic coins, but it is still really interesting to me. The mint is named after an entire region; al-Jazira which means <i>the Island</i> in Arabic, describing the Mesopotamian region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in present-day North Iraq and Syria. Furthermore, the ruler al-Abbas b. Muhammad is relatively unknown even amongst other Arabic coins. Perhaps his uneventful rule was the source of the large number of coins from his lands.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1214471[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center">Abbasid Caliphate</p> <p style="text-align: center">al-Jazira &quot;<i>the Island</i>&quot; Mint</p> <p style="text-align: center">c. 747-767 AD (130s-140s AH)</p> <p style="text-align: center">AE Fals | 1.90 grams | 20mm wide</p> <p style="text-align: center">Issued under al-&#039;Abbas b. Muhammad</p> <p style="text-align: center">Ref: Album-304 (see below)</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1214470[/ATTACH]</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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