Catalog
1 Dirham - Khalid ibn Ibrahim
| Issuer | Abbasid Caliphate |
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| Year | 755-757 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse lettering | لا اله الا الله |
| Reverse description | Central field bearing a multi-line Arabic Kufic inscription arranged in three to four registers within a rectangular frame, naming the governor Khalid ibn Ibrahim and referencing the Abbasid authority. The central device is surrounded by a beaded inner circle and a continuous marginal legend in Kufic script. The flan is irregular and struck on a broad copper planchet with typical early Abbasid hammered workmanship. |
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Khalid ibn Ibrahim al-Dhuhli served as governor of Khurasan under the early Abbasids, a posting that carried minting authority in a region still consolidating after the revolutionary overthrow of the Umayyads in 750. Copper dirhams of this type are provincial issues struck outside the main silver-dominated monetary system, filling local transactional needs where full silver dirhams were impractical for small exchange.
The A#B209 reference places this among the rarer catalogued provincial coppers of the period — documentation for Khurasani copper from this transitional window is fragmentary at best.