Specimen record
qarakhan-005
Qarakhan-005 Qarakhanid Dynasty, Muhammad ibn ʿAli (circa AH 393-415 / AD 1003-1024). Bronze fals (2.78 gm, 27.35 mm), Farghana (Fergana), AH 410 = AD 1019/20. Album 3308. Rare.
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qarakhan-005
House record
This specimen
- Inventory no.
- qarakhan-005
- Weight
- 2.78 g
- Diameter
- 27.35 mm
Type (catalogue)
- Dynasty
- Qarakhanid Dynasty
- Ruler
- Muhammad ibn ʿAli
- Reign
- AH c. 393–415 / AD c. 1003–1024
- Metal
- Copper
- Denomination
- Fals
- Mint
- Farghana
- AH
- 410
- AD
- 1019/20
- References
- Album 3308
Obverse
‘lā ilāha illā / Allāh waḥdahū / lā sharīka lahū’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him’ in Arabic); around, ‘bism Allāh ḍuri/ba hādhā al-fals / bi Farghāna sana / ʿashra wa arbaʿa [miʾa]’ (‘In the name of Allah. This fals was struck in Farghana (Fergana) in the year 410’ in Arabic).
Reverse
Within a 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, ‘mimmā amara bihī al-amīr al-jalīl Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī mawlā amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘From that ordered by the glorious amir, Muhammad son of ʿAli, vassal of the Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic).
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