Specimen record
qarakhan-004
Qarakhan-004 Qarakhanid Dynasty, Muhammad ibn ʿAli (circa AH 393-415 / AD 1003-1024). Bronze fals (2.35 gm, 25.85 mm), Khujand, AH 407 = AD 1016/7. Album 3308. Rare.
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qarakhan-004
House record
This specimen
- Inventory no.
- qarakhan-004
- Weight
- 2.35 gm
- Diameter
- 25.85 mm
Type (catalogue)
- Dynasty
- Qarakhanid Dynasty
- Ruler
- Muhammad ibn ʿAli
- Reign
- circa AD 1003–1024
- Metal
- Copper
- Denomination
- Fals
- Mint
- Khujand
- AH
- 407
- AD
- 1016/7
- References
- Album 3308
Obverse
Within a central dotted circle, ‘lā ilāha illā / Allāh waḥdahū / lā sharīka lahū’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him’ in Arabic); in the inner margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-fals bi Khujanda sana sabʿ wa arbaʿa miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This fals was struck in Khujand in the year 407’ 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
Within a central circle, citing his brother and overlord Arslan Khan, and himself as Ilek, ‘li-llāh / Muḥammad / rasūl Allāh / Arslān Khān / Īlik’ (‘For Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Arslan Khan. Ilek’ in Arabic); in the margin, citing his own titles, ‘mimmā amara bihī al-amīr al-jalīl al-mumakkan al-manṣūr mawlā amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘From that ordered by the glorious, established and victorious amir, vassal of the Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic).
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