Specimen record
qarakhan-023
Qarakhan-023 Qarakhanid Dynasty, Muhammad ibn ʿAli (circa AH 393-415 / AD 1003-1024). Bronze fals (2.91 gm, 28.12 mm), Ilaq, AH 403 = AD 1012/3. Album 3308. Rare.
¥2,980
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qarakhan-023
House record
This specimen
- Inventory no.
- qarakhan-023
- Weight
- 2.91 g
- Diameter
- 28.12 mm
Type (catalogue)
- Dynasty
- Qarakhanid Dynasty
- Ruler
- Muhammad ibn ʿAli
- Reign
- AH c. 393–415 / AD c. 1003–1024
- Metal
- Copper
- Denomination
- Fals
- Mint
- Ilaq
- AH
- 403
- AD
- 1012/3
- References
- Album 3308
Obverse
Within a dotted circle, citing the ruler as Sanaʾ al-Dawla, ‘Sanāʾ / lā ilāha illā / Allāh waḥdahū / lā sharīka lahū / al-Dawla’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him. Sanaʾ al-Dawla’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-fals bi Īlāq sana thalāth wa arbaʿa miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This fals was struck in Ilaq in the year 403’ in Arabic).
Reverse
Within a dotted circle, citing his overlord Ahmad ibn ʿAli (circa AH 384-407 / AD 994-1016) as Khan, ‘li-llāh / Muḥammad / rasūl Allāh / al-malik al-ʿādil / Khān’ (‘For Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. The just king, Khan’ in Arabic); in the margin, citing himself as al-Mumakkan al-Mansur Arslan-Tegin, ‘mimmā amara bihī al-amīr al-sayyid al-Mumakkan al-Manṣūr Arslān-Tikīn’ (‘From that ordered by the amir [and] lord al-Mumakkan al-Mansur Arslan-Tegin’ in Arabic).
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