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Multiple Dirham - Mahmud
| Issuer | Ghaznavid dynasty |
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| Year | 999-1007 |
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| Weight | 10 g |
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| Obverse description | Large, broad hammered silver flan with an aniconic design composed entirely of Arabic Kufic script arranged in concentric zones. The central field contains a multi-line religious legend, the Shahada, distributed across several lines within a double-line inner circle. A circular marginal legend band, separated by a double-line border, encircles the central field and carries additional inscriptions recording the mint name Andarabah, the regnal year, and the name of the Abbasid caliph al-Qadir Billah. The outermost border is defined by a further line, beyond which the broad, flat flan extends irregularly to the rim. The strike is characteristic of large-module multiple dirhams of the Ghaznavid period, with typical die-axis variation and uneven flan spread. |
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| Obverse lettering | بالکاتگین اندرابه سنه تسع و ثمان و ثلاث مئة لا إله إلا الله وحده لاشريك له القادر بالله (Translation: Balkategin Andarabah year nine and eighty and three hundred There is no God but Allah alone Has no partner al-Qadir Billah) |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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