Requesting Help Iding A Mint Mark On An Umayyad Dirham

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Dcnw1983 Valued Member United States 264 Posts	Posted 10/27/2015 6:30 pm I thought I had identified this as UMAYYAD, silver dirham, Al-Samiyyah, 131 AH (749 AD, but an ebay buyer told me: The mint name on this coin is al-Andalus because it is Spanish Umayyad and very clearly read at 7 o'clock.". Can anyone verify that they are correct? Thank you * Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. * Report this Post to the Staff

echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 10/27/2015 8:42 pm I am just starting to branch out into this coin type so I really can't add much. I did find and interesting web site about the type though. It's a little add heavy but still interesting. http://www.angelfire.com/ny3/vaguebrit/ I'm going to move this over to the ancient/medieval coin section for more comments. Report this Post to the Staff
Petrus Pillar of the Community Belgium 2895 Posts	Posted 10/28/2015 10:43 am to compare: http://www.zeno.ru/search.php?searchid=267586 Report this Post to the Staff
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 10/28/2015 10:47 am Reading over the information from the reference link it appears that the governor of al-Andalus at the time period of your coin was Yusub b Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri. I didn't find a reference to Al-Samiyyah. Report this Post to the Staff
Dcnw1983 Valued Member United States 264 Posts	Posted 10/28/2015 1:06 pm thank you for all of the clarifying info. Very helpful. Report this Post to the Staff
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 10/28/2015 1:18 pm Very similar in design is my Abbasid Dirham Al-Saffah Dated AH 135 (753) Al-Kufa mint in Iraq 25mm x 2.59 grams Album 211 Report this Post to the Staff
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