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<p>[QUOTE="dltsrq, post: 7945311, member: 75482"]I believe you are correct, Nuh III b. Mansur, also citing the 'Abbasid caliph al-Ta'i and the local governor Muhammad. Compare this example at Zeno, attributed to the Badakhshan mint:</p><p><a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=85941" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=85941" rel="nofollow">https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=8594</a></p><p>Interestingly, the Samanid emir is named on both the obverse and the reverse. On the reverse, the name at first glance appears to be Nuh II b. Nasr (cited posthumously). Album suggests that the most logical explanation is that what appears to be <i>Nasr</i> نصر is actually a poorly written <i>Mansur</i> منصور.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dltsrq, post: 7945311, member: 75482"]I believe you are correct, Nuh III b. Mansur, also citing the 'Abbasid caliph al-Ta'i and the local governor Muhammad. Compare this example at Zeno, attributed to the Badakhshan mint: [URL='https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=85941']https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=8594[/URL] Interestingly, the Samanid emir is named on both the obverse and the reverse. On the reverse, the name at first glance appears to be Nuh II b. Nasr (cited posthumously). Album suggests that the most logical explanation is that what appears to be [I]Nasr[/I] نصر is actually a poorly written [I]Mansur[/I] منصور.[/QUOTE]
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