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hokiestenn New Member United States 27 Posts	Posted 01/12/2015 11:12 pm Help please with ID on this piece. Sorry about orientation. Can't tell which way is up! * Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. * Report this Post to the Staff

hokiestenn New Member United States 27 Posts	Posted 01/12/2015 11:15 pm More info. 22mm diameter, 5.1g Report this Post to the Staff
Medieval Pillar of the Community 3772 Posts	Posted 01/12/2015 11:18 pm It's a coin from the Abbasid Caliphs of Bagdad (~7th century), my eyes are not good enough to decipher the legend based on those pictures though. Report this Post to the Staff
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 01/12/2015 11:37 pm Here is a web site that might help with an ID. http://islamiccoins.ancients.info/a..._CALIPHS.htm Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16884 Posts	Posted 01/13/2015 12:32 am The top pic is upside-down; the bottom pic is good. The obverse or "front" of the coin is the top pic; it is this side that contains the date and mintmark. Fortunately, it's nice and readable on this coin: the mint-city is "Medinat es-Salam", City of Peace, the flowery title given to Baghdad as the 'Abbasid capital city. The year is 189 Islamic Era, which converts to AD 805. This is towards the end of the reign of Caliph Harun al-Rashid. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
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