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Dinar - al-Rashid 'UMAR in the field - no mintname
| Issuer | Abbasid Caliphate |
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| Year | 786-809 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Purely epigraphic design struck in the Umayyad-derived Abbasid tradition, with no figural imagery. The central field bears a three-line Arabic Kalima inscription arranged in horizontal registers, proclaiming the Shahada. An inner marginal band separates the central field from the outer legend, which carries the Quranic verse from Surat al-Tawba (9:33) attesting to the mission of the Prophet Muhammad. The entire surface is framed by a beaded border characteristic of Abbasid gold coinage of the late 2nd century AH. |
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| Obverse lettering | لا اله الا الله وحده لا شريك له محمد رسول الله ارسله بالهدى ودين الحق ليظهره على الدين كله ولو كره المشركون |
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Harun al-Rashid's gold dinars are among the most precisely controlled coinages of the early Abbasid period. His administration enforced strict weight standards across the fiscal apparatus, and the absence of a mint name on this type is not an omission — it was deliberate policy, following the Umayyad convention that the dinar required no geographic attribution, its authority derived entirely from the caliph's name and the purity of the gold itself.
The addition of ʿUmar in the field identifies this as a variety attributed to the fiscal oversight of a named official, a practice Harun employed to fix administrative accountability directly onto the coin. Album 218.8 distinguishes it within a tightly sequenced series of field-name variants across his 23-year reign.