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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 8221756, member: 74834&quot;]Most dinars are around 3-4 grams, but you are right, there are light ones of 2 grams and heavies of 5 or 6. I&#039;m sure they were all weighed exactly by the salespeople of their time. But also, there&#039;s the question of alloys. Sometimes there&#039;s not much gold in a dinar, so that it looks like a silver or billon coin. But a coin with 15% gold still had a lot of value for its user.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, many of these gold dinars were weakly struck, like this one: a Khwarezmshah coin of 1200-1220 like yours, mint not mentioned, but minted in Nishapur, date AH 607 (=1210/1211 AD). Album 1712. The weight is 2.95 gr and the diameter 23 mm.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1444168[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And here is one of those &#039;gold&#039; coins with a very low amount of gold in it. It&#039;s of the Buwayhid or Buyid dynasty that reigned in Persia and east of it (10th-11th century). This coin is very common (and cheap nowadays); the Buwayhids needed a lot of soldiers, that&#039;s why. It&#039;s also very vague, minted with dies that saw a lot of use.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1444162[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Technical details:</p><p>Buwayhids, pale gold dinar. Baha&#039; al-Dawla Abu Nasr Firuz Kharshah. 398? = 1007/8 AD, but this type was minted for ten or twenty years unchanged. Mint Suq al-Ahwaz (Western Iran). 28 mm, 4.41 gr. Album 1573A. In Zeno you may find <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=13951" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=13951" rel="nofollow">a number of these coins</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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