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BCC BW30 Bronze Islamic Weight 1/12 Dirham
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Islamic Bronze Weight
Caesarea Maritima 1/12 Dirham
7th-12th Century CE
Obv: Uncertain incomplete Kufic Arabic
inscription in two lines, within circle.
عبد الله ? ('abd-Allah, also Abdullah)?
Rev: Blank. Flat, nearly rectangular
brick-shaped slab, cut from a sheet of
thin metal and stamped in relief.
AE 6.0 x 5.0 x 1.25mm. Wt: 0.26gm.
cf. BCC BW25; and Holland, "ANSMN 31
(1986)" #399, 431, 471.
Surface find Caesarea Maritima, 1970's
J. Berlin Caesarea Collection
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