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Message:: [QUOTE="dltsrq, post: 21186945, member: 75482"][ATTACH=full]1542374[/ATTACH] Islamic, Samanids, Isma’il b. Ahmad, AH 279-295 / AD 892-907, AE fals (3.12gm), al-Shash (modern Tashkent in Uzbekistan), AH 280 (AD 893/4). The Samanid dynasty was of Persian origin. They were at first governors for the 'Abbasid caliph in the east but soon asserted effective independence, one of the first major dynasties to do so. Legends... OC: la ilah illa / Allah wahdahu / la sherikh lahu ("there is no god but Allah alone; there are no others with Him"). Triple obverse margin. OM1: bism Allah zarb haza al-fils bi’l-Shash sanat themanin wa thelath mi’at ("in the name of Allah was struck this fals at al-Shash in the year eighty and two hundred"); OM2: mimma amara beh al-amir Isma’il bin Ahmad atal Allah biqah ("by his authority, the amir Isma'il bin Ahmad, may Allah prolong his reign"). OM3: Qur’an XXX:4 ("to Allah belongs the authority before and after; and that day the believers will rejoice"). RC: lillah / Muhammad / rassul / Allah / al-amir Isma’il / a’zza Allah ("to Allah; Muhammad is the apostle of Allah; the amir Isma'il, may Allah bless him"). RM: Qur'an 9:33 ("Muhammad is the apostle of Allah, who has sent him with guidance and the religion of truth, making it prevail over all others, even to the dismay of the polytheists").[/QUOTE]