Walking Back In Time From 1600 To Antiquity By Decades. Looking For 440s

Nate, do you want to take over and take us into the Ancient times?

I am up for it I just got to look through some stuff.

These coins are some of the most common and most affordable ancient/ medieval coins on the market today. The part of the series that is considered better and less abstract is attributed comes to a close around AD 950.
India
Saurashta and Gujarat
Anonymous Issue (800-950AD)
AR drachm 17.2 mm x 4.00 g
Obverse: Stylized bust of Khushrau right. With degraded dots for legends,
Reverse: Stylized Zoroastrian fire alter.
Ref: Mitchener 422

"I leave home for a few days, and look what happens."
This may help.
Constantine VII follis
Struck between 913- 959 CE

So with out further delay lets move on to the 940's!

Hi. At the risk of activating a zombie thread that has been blissfully slumbering for over a year, I wonder if I can plug a couple holes in the boat and move us closer to the ancients?

I'll start by posting a coin from 959 AD and if there seems to be some interest in keeping things moving, I can at least kick the can down the road a few times. Hopefully some others can then join in too and eventually we will get past the Dark Ages and into Byzantine and late Roman where it seems that we have higher levels of interest. Please weigh in if you'd rather I just let this thread enjoy its death.

Here is my Dirham from Tashkent Uzbekistan (al shash) dated AH 348 (approximately 959 AD). Attribution is Album 1462. He notes that these are "Usually abysmally struck, the worst of the Samanid dirhams." My piece is pretty typical I think, although clearly that hole is PMD.

It seems like ancientnoob was going to steer this thread, but until that happens, I'll try to keep us organized. AN, please jump in when you see this thread.

@arnoldoe, that is an interesting group of Byzantine coins that you have here. Please take a quick look at the first page of the thread to get an idea for the format and rules for posting. I believe that for the rest of today, the decade of the 950s are open. Your coin featuring Constantine VII and Romanus II is perfect for today. Starting tomorrow, we will move back in time to the decade of the 940s. Then, you can post your coin with Constantine VII by himself. Between the two of us, I'm pretty sure that we can move this thread at least into the 800s.

This is an interesting thread that I would like to see continue. Anoob has been focusing on other things lately so doesn't have the time to run this. So Dave if you would like go a head and take it over.