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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 3289648, member: 74834&quot;]<b>11. One of those enigmatic Persian local coins</b>, issued shortly after the islamic conquest. A fable bird (‘Senmurv’ or ‘Senmurg’) on the reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>Arab-Sasanian AE pashiz, Ardashir-xvarrah (Farroxzad), 75-79 AH = 695-699 AD. Obv. Xusro II-like head r. In the margins, moon and star marks. Single pearl rim. On 6h, two threepoints flanking a moon and star. High breast. Rev. Senmurv flying to the left. Double pearl rim. Moon and stars on the edges. 22 x 19 mm, 0.67 gr. <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=204928" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=204928" rel="nofollow">Zeno 204928</a> (this coin). With a label of Spink &amp; Son (‘RRR’). Album 41 (‘R’). Gyselen Type 2, cf. Nr. 10.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]869794[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>12. A coin blending Christian and Sogdian elements </b>– from Sogdia, once a happy, thriving Central Asian country on the Silk Route where now is Kazakhstan. Nestorian Christianity perpetrated even farther to the East: to China even. After 1000 AD it was gradually wiped out in Central Asia by Islam. This coin shows the mountain lion that was often found on coins of this region, but also the Nestorian cross.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bukhara Soghd, Vardanzi. Unknown ruler. 7th century? Obv. Lion left. Rev. Nestorian cross. 16 mm, 0.87 gr. Zeno 20208. See also <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=49952" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=49952" rel="nofollow">49952 for literature</a> (in Russian: Musakaeva 1994). Cf. the lion type of Shagalov &amp; Kuznetsov, Type 6, Group 6 and 9. According to p. 200, the date of the lion type might lie between 650 and 750 AD.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]869795[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>13. In the wake of Arab-Sasanian coinage I’m getting more interested in the early copper coinage of Islam, especially in that of Persia and Central Asia. This is a very <b>unusual fals (‘follis’) of an early Abbasid rebel named Muqanna, showing a horse</b> – in a style that’s to be found on several other types of the region.</p><p><br /></p><p>Abbasid AE fals, Nasaf, rebel Al-Muqannah, 157-159 AH (774-776). Obv. Horse. Rev. Text. 23.5 mm, 3.60 gr. Nasaf = Nakhshab = Kharshi /now Qarshi, Uzbekistan. See <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=102443" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=102443" rel="nofollow">Zeno #102443</a>. V. Nastich, fig. 23. Album A 330 (‘RRR’).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]869797[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>14. This gold coin I gave myself as a present for New Year 2018, because it’s so harmonious.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>AV dinar Samanids. Nasr II b. Ahmad (301-331), Nishapur AH 327 (=938/9). Obv. single circle around field. At the top, a letter. Rev. double circle around field. Signed by engraver Abu Harith on obv. on 9 o’clock margin. 22.5 mm, 4.86 gr. AGC I 300pj. Album 1449. Cf. SNAT XIV 1 nr. 463.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]869798[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>15. Qarakhanid dynasty coinage (fl. 990-1210)</b> is one of my topmost interests. This beauty is pretty late in that, a ‘broad dirham’, but in reality a bronze coin, very thin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Qarakhanid broad AE husami dirham, Marghinan. 602 AH. Husam ad-Dunia wa-d-Din Ulug Toghan khaqan. Obv. Central word <i>Allah</i> in a four-lobed cartouche/ quatrefoil. Three large lines between two small, in a circle, encircled by lettering. At the top the denomination, <i>husami</i>. 39.5 mm, 8.38 gr. Kochnev 1137. Album-3424. Zeno 46837.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]869800[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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