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Dear "galaxybase".
I was just going through a few threads on Münz-board,
and I found your copper or billon dirham (see
attachment). No wonder that noone can explain what it
is.
Phillipus II said that it's a Persian coin. He is
not completely wrong. During Sassanian rule in Persia
(3rd - 7th century AD), the silver drachm, or dirhem,
was the most common coin. After the Sassanian empire
had been incorporated into the caliphate (middle of
7th century), Arabic script was added to the coins.
Around 700, all images of human beings on the coins
were banned (due to religious doctrine), and the coin
design thereafter consisted of text and ornaments
only. So this is the classical Arabic dirhem, which
was issued throughout the empire - from Spain to
Afghanistan.
Your coin is not an Arabic dirhem, but a
contemporary imitation. The script is babarous and
completely meaningless. Such imitations were mede by
contemporary rulers outside the caliphal empire, e.g.
in Britain and Ethiopia. So this coin is a barbarous
imitation of a dirhem, minted between the 8th and the
13th centuries, somewhere in Europe, North Africa or
West- or central Asia. If you want a more exact
attribution, you should ask one of the specialised
fora, such as this one:
http://islamiccoins.ancients.info/
Best regards,
Vincent.
Gruß, mk.
