Specimen record
buw-015
Buw-015 Buwayhid Dynasty, ʿImad al-Dawla Abu’l-Hasan ʿAli ibn Buya (AH 322-338 / AD 934-949). Silver dirham (3.15 gm, 26.55 mm), Arrajan, AH 324 = AD 935/6. Album 1538. Rare mint.
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buw-015
House record
This specimen
- Inventory no.
- buw-015
- Weight
- 3.15 g
- Diameter
- 26.55 mm
Type (catalogue)
- Dynasty
- Buyid Dynasty
- Ruler
- ʿAli ibn Buwayh
- Reign
- AH 322–338 / AD 934–949
- Metal
- Silver
- Denomination
- Dirham
- Mint
- Arrajan
- AH
- 324
- AD
- 935/6
- References
- Album 1538
Obverse
‘lā ilāha illā / Allāh waḥdahū / lā sharīka lahū / ʿAlī ibn Būya’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him. ʿAli son of Buya’ in Arabic); in the inner margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-dirham bi Arrajān sana arbaʿ wa ʿishrīn wa thalātha miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This dirham was struck in Arrajan in the year 324’ in Arabic); in the outer margin, ‘li-llāh al-amr min qabl wa min baʿd wa yawmaʾidhin 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
Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Raḍi billah (AH 322-329 / AD 934-940), ‘li-llāh / Muḥammad / rasūl / Allāh / al-Rāḍī bi-llāh’ (‘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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