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Qanhari Dirham 'Damma' - Muhammad ibn Ghazan

Issuer Sind
Year 744-745
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Shape Round (irregular)
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Obverse description Crude hammered field displaying highly stylized Arabic legends arranged in multiple horizontal registers across the flan. A prominent annulet or pellet-in-ring device occupies the central field, flanked by degenerate letterforms characteristic of the late Sindhi Qanhari dirham tradition. The inscription, though heavily stylized to the point of semi-abstraction, retains elements of the Islamic declaration of faith. The overall execution reflects the debased engraving conventions typical of small-denomination silver fractions struck in Sind during the mid-tenth century AH.
Obverse script Arabic
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