Two Mysterious Coins (Id: 9th Century Abbasid Dirham And Artuqid Dirham)

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DagonX Valued Member Poland 392 Posts	Posted 08/25/2009 5:42 pm Hi! Any ideas about these two beauties? Coin #1 - silver, about 23mm, 2.84g Coin #2 - silver, about 20mm, 2.22g Thanks for any help! Report this Post to the Staff

aussie87 New Member Italy 2 Posts	Posted 08/27/2009 6:01 pm hi, coin number 1 seems to be a dirhem from umayyad or abbassid dinasty. on the picture on right I can read: LA ALAH ILLA ALLAH = There's no God except Allah UAHDAHU = He's the one LA SHERIK LAHU = He has no partners named: the monotheism proclamation but I can't read the year and the mint issue...sorry! but try to look in this direction. for second coin...it reminds a moroccan star...try searching in hammered currency of maroccan sultans! i hope to be helpful...! ciao! Report this Post to the Staff
snowman Pillar of the Community United States 1840 Posts	Posted 08/28/2009 10:11 am The second one looks like a silver Durham of the Ayyubids. I think this one is a close match: http://www.vcoins.com/ancient/ancie...071205214800 Report this Post to the Staff
garylcsr Pillar of the Community United States 1952 Posts	Posted 08/28/2009 9:52 pm nice coins sorry I know nothing but had to add my two pence. they both look very harshly cleaned and then dipped. hope I'm wrong Report this Post to the Staff
Frazzle Pillar of the Community United States 505 Posts	Posted 08/29/2009 12:42 am those first two look like chocolate vanilla cookies.....MMMMMMMMMM! Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16845 Posts	Posted 09/02/2009 10:36 am Quote: they both look very harshly cleaned and then dipped. hope I'm wrong Cleaned mediaeval coins are "normal". Coin collecting was virtually unheard of back when these coins were new; all the surviving specimens that are around today were buried, and dug up again relatively recently; all such coins would have been cleaned. These coins look like typical hoard finds, with the coins piled together, partially protecting each other from the surrounding soil. Coin #1 is indeed an 'Abbasid dirham. The mint-name appears to be Isfahan, a city in what is now central Iran. I read the date to be "8 and 90 and 100" - 198 AH, or 813-814 AD. Coin #2 is a "star dirham", similar to the Artuqid one in this thread. Unfortunately, the date is off the flan on your coin. 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
DagonX Valued Member Poland 392 Posts	Posted 09/02/2009 12:22 pm Unfortunately these coins aren't mine... Anyway, thanks a lot for help! Report this Post to the Staff
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