Specimen record
qarakhan-016
Qarakhan-016 Qarakhanid Dynasty, Muhammad ibn Mansur (AH 391-395 / AD 1001-1006). Bronze fals (2.62 gm, 27.98 mm), Ilaq, AH 395 = AD 1004/5. Album 3430. Very rare.
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qarakhan-016
House record
This specimen
- Inventory no.
- qarakhan-016
- Weight
- 2.62 g
- Diameter
- 27.98 mm
Type (catalogue)
- Dynasty
- Qarakhanid Dynasty
- Ruler
- Muhammad ibn Mansur
- Reign
- AH 391–395 / AD 1001–1006
- Metal
- Copper
- Denomination
- Fals
- Mint
- Ilaq
- AH
- 395
- AD
- 1004/5
- References
- Album 3430
Obverse
Within a central dotted circle, ‘li-llāh / Muḥammad / rasūl Allāh’ (‘For Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah’ in Arabic); in the inner margin, ‘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 outer margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-fals bi Īlāq sana khams wa tisʿīn wa thalātha miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This fals was struck in Ilaq in the year 395’ in Arabic).
Reverse
Within a central square, ‘dihqān al-jalīl / Muḥammad / ibn Manṣūr’ (‘The glorious dihqān Muhammad son of Mansur’ in Arabic); citing his overlord Ahmad ibn ʿAli (AH 384-407 / AD 994-1016) in the margin, ‘mimmā amara bihī al-amīr al-jalīl Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ayyadahū Allāh’ (‘From that ordered by the glorious amir Ahmad son of ʿAli. May Allah help him’ in Arabic).
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