Dear
members;
This coin as the Arab-sassanian coin already posted and a third one [will be posted later],have been acquired recently by me from old collector.For the arab-Sassanian i haven't received any answer from S.Album yet..
Here the description of this COIN:
Obv:-center:
Kalima-marginal
legend:"in the name of God this
Dirham was strucked at Wassit in the year seventy five"[khams wa sab'in]
sicPS;Already the arabic calligraphy is unusual with word "wahdahou" and "shairka"
Rev:
-center:"Surath 112 "th of Holy Kuran.
-marginal
legend:"the prophetic mission" ,also with very curious calligraphy,without errors but with unusual way to write some words.[Arabic is my maternal language...].
The mystery is that Wassit started strucking coins in 84-85 H.So where this
dirham was strucked?by whom?and why??this fatidic and unrecorded date??75H??.....
S.Album answered:"looks to me like a
contemporary North African imitation,circa AH100-150"
I am not convinced at all by this response,for multiple reasons:calligraphy is very different from
north african coins,the
weight also:2,7 g,and the shape.Other major reason is that Umayyad ruler in
spain :Abdel
Rahman I[138-172 H] issued completely different coins and he didn't need to do imitation because of
his own regular issue...
My opinion is that
Dirham is among the first
islamic dirham prototype and because of the unusual calligraphy it was probably left for more regular issue[look also at the trasversal signs on
Obv.]
This coin was seen by several experts and look really ancient and authentic with a lot of weak signs on both
side.
Please
help to identify this major coin.
Thanks in advance.
nassif