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<p>[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3418231, member: 84744"]The legends identify it as a dirham minted in Wasit, AH 120 (i.e. 737-738), under the Umayyad Caliph Hisham, who ruled from 724-743. However... in that case it should be silver! It looks to me like it is probably a later cast. (Which I haven't seen before, not that I'm particularly experienced with these.) Another indicator is that it looks too thick, confirmed by the very high weight; they're normally under 3g.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's an old photo of my own Hisham dirham, also minted in Wasit:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]906933[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And here's a helpful image of how to read the obverse (different coin, also minted in Wasit, though):</p><p><img src="http://www.coincommunity.org/gallery/albums/userpics/10041/Umayyad_Translation_obv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>You'll note that the left side of the obverse is pretty much the same on all three coins, and that yours from 1 o'clock to 4:30 or so matches mine from 1 o'clock to 3:30 - that's the "one hundred and twenty" part, or "mi'at wa ishrin."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3418231, member: 84744"]The legends identify it as a dirham minted in Wasit, AH 120 (i.e. 737-738), under the Umayyad Caliph Hisham, who ruled from 724-743. However... in that case it should be silver! It looks to me like it is probably a later cast. (Which I haven't seen before, not that I'm particularly experienced with these.) Another indicator is that it looks too thick, confirmed by the very high weight; they're normally under 3g. Here's an old photo of my own Hisham dirham, also minted in Wasit: [ATTACH=full]906933[/ATTACH] And here's a helpful image of how to read the obverse (different coin, also minted in Wasit, though): [IMG]http://www.coincommunity.org/gallery/albums/userpics/10041/Umayyad_Translation_obv.jpg[/IMG] You'll note that the left side of the obverse is pretty much the same on all three coins, and that yours from 1 o'clock to 4:30 or so matches mine from 1 o'clock to 3:30 - that's the "one hundred and twenty" part, or "mi'at wa ishrin."[/QUOTE]
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