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Help Identifying An Abbasid Coin

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 Posted 10/12/2022  03:22 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add pdg to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Not sure even where to start with this one, so any tips appreciated.
All I am confident of so far is that this coin is a dirham from the Abbasid caliphate.
Beyond that I have no idea of date/ruler.
I gather most of the identifying information on these coins is in the outer inscriptions, which appear to be missing.
I don't know if that is due to wear or if clipping was an issue even in the days of the Caliphate.
I don't have scales to weigh it but the diameter is about 19mm.
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 Posted 10/12/2022  05:49 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Kushanshah to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Not 'Abbasid but Ghaznavid, Mas'ud I, 1030-1042, AR dirham, also citing the 'Abbasid caliph al-Qa'im, mint (if any) and date illegible, Album 1621. The tight margins are typical, unfortunately.

The first image is the reverse. The emir is named in the last two lines: Nasir Din Allah / Mas'ud.

The second image is the obverse, citing the caliph in the last line: al-Qa'im bi-amr Allah.
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10/12/2022 07:54 am
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 Posted 10/13/2022  03:28 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add pdg to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Great, thank you Kushanshah! I was hoping you would spot my post and share your formidable knowledge.
It seems I was mistaken about even the one thing I was confident of but on the upside I now have a whole new empire to read up on and learn about!
Thanks also for the translations.
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