Abbasid (?) Coin To ID | Samanid Dirham 899 Ad

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DagonX Valued Member Poland 392 Posts	Posted 04/19/2011 3:32 pm Hi and hello! Here's my coin: Thanks for help! DagonX Identified - title edited - Sap Report this Post to the Staff

t0rress Pillar of the Community Bulgaria 843 Posts	Posted 04/19/2011 6:05 pm This is a persian coin but I can say more because I am very tired Report this Post to the Staff
t0rress Pillar of the Community Bulgaria 843 Posts	Posted 04/19/2011 6:09 pm Maybe minted in Iran or Iraq Report this Post to the Staff
DagonX Valued Member Poland 392 Posts	Posted 04/21/2011 04:19 am Anybody else? DagonX Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16810 Posts	Posted 04/21/2011 09:44 am OK, it took me a while to read it, but once I worked out the mint, it narrowed things down. The mint is Tashkent (which in Arabic is esh-Shash), in what is now Uzbekistan. It is not 'Abbasid, but the rather more obscure Samanid dynasty which ruled in central Asia from 819 to 1000 AD. The date on your coin is hard to read - it's weakly struck right where the crucial words are - but I think it's AH 286, which would translate nicely to 899 AD. The Samanid ruler at the time was Isma'il ibn Ahmad. This example on Zeno.ru is more or less identical to your coin as far as mint and date are concerned. 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 04/21/2011 7:14 pm Sap - as usual, you are great! Thanks a lot! DagonX Report this Post to the Staff
HeadsIWin Valued Member United States 260 Posts	Posted 04/21/2011 11:13 pm That is a very beautiful coin! Report this Post to the Staff
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