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<p>[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 7948024, member: 82322"]Zeno has a category for Nuh III b. Mansur multiple dirhams, <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=4662" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=4662" rel="nofollow">https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=4662</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There are 84 coins on that page. Many look a lot like mine.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is no consensus on that page for obverse and reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some are dated, some dateless, some name mint cities. Some of two lines of circular inscriptions, others one.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have Richard Plant’s book and could probably puzzle out the inscriptions, given time. I do not have the ability to enter Arabic text on my computer keyboard. I desire something like <a href="http://islamiccoins.ancients.info/abbasid/ABBASID_CALIPHS.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://islamiccoins.ancients.info/abbasid/ABBASID_CALIPHS.htm" rel="nofollow">http://islamiccoins.ancients.info/abbasid/ABBASID_CALIPHS.htm</a> showing the inscriptions in Arabic that I can cut-and-paste from, alongside translations.</p><p><br /></p><p>Multiple dirhams have words at the top and the bottom outside the circular inscriptions. A list of the possibilities would help. Are there hundreds of words or just a dozen? If I drop $350 on Mitchiner or $100 on Sylloge Numorum Arabicorum Tubingen: Balh would I find such lists there? Or is there a web site?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 7948024, member: 82322"]Zeno has a category for Nuh III b. Mansur multiple dirhams, [URL]https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=4662[/URL] There are 84 coins on that page. Many look a lot like mine. There is no consensus on that page for obverse and reverse. Some are dated, some dateless, some name mint cities. Some of two lines of circular inscriptions, others one. I have Richard Plant’s book and could probably puzzle out the inscriptions, given time. I do not have the ability to enter Arabic text on my computer keyboard. I desire something like [URL]http://islamiccoins.ancients.info/abbasid/ABBASID_CALIPHS.htm[/URL] showing the inscriptions in Arabic that I can cut-and-paste from, alongside translations. Multiple dirhams have words at the top and the bottom outside the circular inscriptions. A list of the possibilities would help. Are there hundreds of words or just a dozen? If I drop $350 on Mitchiner or $100 on Sylloge Numorum Arabicorum Tubingen: Balh would I find such lists there? Or is there a web site?[/QUOTE]
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