Specimen record
ras-004
Ras-004 Rasulid Dynasty, al-Mujahid (AH 721-764 / AD 1322-1363). Silver dirham (1.86 gm, 29.45 mm), type C, al-Mahjam, AH 749 = AD 1348/9. Album 1108.3.
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ras-004
House record
This specimen
- Inventory no.
- ras-004
- Weight
- 1.86 gm
- Diameter
- 29.45 mm
Type (catalogue)
- Dynasty
- Rasulid Dynasty
- Ruler
- al-Mujahid
- Reign
- AD 1322–1363
- Metal
- Silver
- Denomination
- Dirham
Obverse
Within a hexafoil, ‘bism Allāh / al-raḥmān al-raḥīm / lā ilāha illā / Allāh’ (‘In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. There is no deity but Allah’ in Arabic); in the inner margin, ‘Muḥammad rasūl Allāh arsalahū bi al-hudā wa dīn al-ḥaqq’ (‘Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. He sent him with guidance and the religion of truth’ in Arabic); continued in the outer margin, ‘liyuẓhirahū ʿalā al-dīn kullih al-aʾimma raḍiya Allāh ʿanhum Abūbakr ʿUmar ʿUthmān ʿAlī (‘so that He may make it overcome all religions. The Imams, may Allah be pleased with them: Abubakr, ʿUmar, ʿUthman, ʿAli’ in Arabic).
Reverse
Within a hexafoil, a lion standing to left; in the inner margin, ‘al-sulṭān al-malik al-Mujāhid Sayf al-Islām ʿAlī ibn Dāwūd’ (‘Sultan [and] King al-Mujahid Sayf al-Islam ʿAli son of Dawud’ in Arabic); citing the long-deceased ʿAbbasid caliph al-Mustaʿsim billah (AH 640-656 / AD 1242-1258) in the outer margin, ‘al-imām al-Mustaʿṣim billāh amīr al-muʾminīn ḍuriba bi al-Mahjam sana tisʿ wa arbaʿīn wa sabʿa miʾa’ (‘Imam al-Mustaʿsim billah, Commander of the Believers. Struck in al-Mahjam in the year 749’ in Arabic).
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