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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dltsrq, post: 5350637, member: 75482&quot;]Very good! You are correct on all points, I think.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 2nd line on reverse in full is مما أمر به الامير الامين <i>mimma amara bihi al-amir al-Amin </i>(&quot;from that ordered by the amir al-Amin&quot;).</p><p><br /></p><p>The 3rd line continues with al-Amin&#039;s given name محمد (Muhammad). So if both lines are read together, we have &quot;from that ordered by the amir al-Amin Muhammad, son of the commander of the faithful&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Album 219.9.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I prefer the straight-forwardness of Umayyad &amp; &#039;Abbasid Kufic to the later more artistic scripts. The Kufic of outlying dynasties such as the Fatimids and Ghaznavids can sometimes be more cryptic, however. Part of reading the coins is learning what to expect. There is a rather narrow set of possibilities as opposed to reading something like a modern Arabic newspaper.</p><p><br /></p><p>Keep up the good work![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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