Specimen record
ab-018
AB-018 Arab-Bukharan, ʿAli [ibn ʿIsa ibn Mahan] (governor of Khurasan: AH 187-191 / AD 803-807). Billon drachm (2.73 gm), type Ie/1a, Samarqand. Bates 2017. Album 96. Rare.
ab-018
House record
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￥11,000
![AB-018 Arab-Bukharan, ʿAli [ibn ʿIsa ibn Mahan] (governor of Khurasan: AH 187-191 / AD 803-807). Billon drachm (2.73 gm), type Ie/1a, Samarqand. Bates 2017. Album 96. Rare. — Obverse](https://images.silkroadnumis.jp/coins/ab-018/obverse.png?v=2026-10-06T01%3A06%3A32.711Z)
![AB-018 Arab-Bukharan, ʿAli [ibn ʿIsa ibn Mahan] (governor of Khurasan: AH 187-191 / AD 803-807). Billon drachm (2.73 gm), type Ie/1a, Samarqand. Bates 2017. Album 96. Rare. — Reverse](https://images.silkroadnumis.jp/coins/ab-018/reverse.png?v=2026-10-06T01%3A06%3A32.711Z)
Obverse
Within a dotted circle, stylized Sasanian-style crowned bust to right imitating the Sasanian king Bahram V; citing Sulayman ibn Hamid al-Azdi, governor of Samarqand, ‘bism Allāh Muḥammad rasūl Allāh Muḥammadiyya mimmā amara bihī al-amīr ʿAlī Sulaymān li-llāh’ (‘In the name of Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Muhammadiyya. From that ordered by Amir ʿAli. Sulayman. For Allah’ in Arabic).
Reverse
Stylized fire altar flanked by two attendants; stylized bust of Ahura Mazdā to right in flames.
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