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Offline Fornix

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Unknown Desert Coin help.
« on: May 27, 2011, 04:28:52 pm »
Stumped on this one,any help would be greatly appreciated.
15mm
5.3g
Quite thick for the size.
I was thinking Nabatean?

Offline wileyc

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Re: Unknown Desert Coin help.
« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2011, 04:36:07 pm »
Looks Islamic, I would post it in that forum for help

cw

rick2

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Re: Unknown Desert Coin help.
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2011, 05:50:42 am »
Umayyad

fulus

your is the type with the mintmark written in the legend
and you cant quite see it

ca 100-120 AH


Offline Fornix

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Re: Unknown Desert Coin help.
« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2011, 07:22:03 pm »
Thank you for the info.
What exactly does it translate to?

rick2

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Re: Unknown Desert Coin help.
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2011, 05:31:57 am »
the center part is the standard kalima

la ilaha ill allah , there is no god except allah

mohammadur rasul allah , mohammed is the prophet of allah

the interesting bit on these coins are on the legend which reads

bismillah duriba al fulus bi (mintname)

it s sometimes possible to identify where they were minted. there are a variety of mints in the middle east where these were struck
places like dimasq, qinnasrin, tabaryia, hims, ludd , amman etc etc

 

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