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1 Dirham - 'Isa b. Ibrahim
| Issuer | Sulaymanid dynasty |
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| Year | 886-890 |
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| Weight | 2.62 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by a multi-line Kufic Arabic religious legend arranged in horizontal bands, typical of Abbasid-influenced dirham coinage. The inscription is framed by a single inner circle and a wider outer marginal legend band running around the full circumference of the flan, also in Kufic script. The lettering is boldly struck in high relief with characteristic angular Kufic forms. The overall layout follows the standard aniconic Islamic dirham format, with no figural imagery. The irregular flan shows natural edge irregularities consistent with hand-struck hammered silver production. |
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| Reverse description | Central field bears a multi-line Kufic Arabic inscription arranged in several horizontal registers within a plain inner circle, following the canonical Islamic dirham reverse format derived from Abbasid prototypes. The central legend is surrounded by a concentric marginal band carrying a circumferential Kufic inscription, separated from the inner circle by a plain linear border. The script is deeply struck with well-defined angular Kufic letterforms. A secondary inner border ring encloses the central text panel. The flan is irregular in outline, consistent with hammered silver coinage of the period. |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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