Specimen record
abb-023
Abb-023 ʿAbbasid Caliphate, al-Raḍi billah (AH 322-329 / AD 934-940). Silver dirham (3.72 gm, 26.25 mm), al-Mawsil, AH 327 = AD 938/9. Album 255.2. Rare.
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abb-023
House record
This specimen
- Inventory no.
- abb-023
- Weight
- 3.72 g
- Diameter
- 26.25 mm
Type (catalogue)
- Dynasty
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Ruler
- al-Radi billah
- Reign
- AH 322–329 / AD 934–940
- Metal
- Silver
- Denomination
- Dirham
- Type
- Citing his son Abu'l-Fadl
- Mint
- Mosul
- AH
- 327
- AD
- 938/9
- References
- Album 255.2
Obverse
Citing his son Abu’l-Faḍl, ‘lā ilāha illā / Allāh waḥdahū / lā sharīka lahū / Abuʾl-Faḍl ibn / amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him. Abu’l-Faḍl, son of the Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); in the inner margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-dirham bi al-Mawṣil sana sabʿ wa ʿishrīn wa thalātha miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This dirham was struck in al-Mawsil in the year 327’ in Arabic); in the outer margin, ‘li-llāh al-amr min qabl wa min baʿd wa yawmaidhin yafraḥu al-muʾminūn bi naṣr Allāh’ (‘To Allah belongs the command before and after, and on that day the believers will rejoice with the help of Allah’ in Arabic; Qurʾān 30: 4-5).
Reverse
‘li-llāh / Muḥammad / rasūl / Allāh / al-Rāḍī billāh’ (‘For Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. al-Raḍi billah’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘Muḥammad rasūl Allāh arsalahū bi al-hudā wa dīn al-ḥaqq liyuẓhirahū ʿalā al-dīn kullih wa law kariha al-mushrikūn’ (‘Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. He sent him with guidance and the religion of truth, so that He may make it overcome all religions, even though the unbelievers may dislike it’ in Arabic).
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