Specimen record
tah-001
Tah-001 Tahirid Dynasty, Tahir II ibn ʿAbd Allah (AH 230-248 / AD 845-862). Bronze fals (3.77 gm, 26.45 mm), al-Shash, AH 241 = AD 855/6. Album B1395.2. Rare.
tah-001
House record
Obverse
Citing his son and heir Abu ʿAbd Allah, ‘lā ilāha illā / Allāh waḥdahū / lā sharīka lahū / Abū ʿAbd Allāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him. Abu ʿAbd Allah’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘ḍuriba hādhā al-fals bi al-Shāsh fī wilāyat Ṭāhir sana iḥdā [wa] arbaʿīn’ (‘This fals was struck in al-Shash under the authority of Tahir in the year [2]41’ in Arabic).
Reverse
Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil ʿala Allah (AH 232-247 / AD 847-861) ‘li-llāh / Muḥammad / rasūl / Allāh / al-Mutawakkil ʿalā Allāh’ (‘For Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. al-Mutawakkil ʿala Allah’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘arsalahū bi al-hudā wa dīn al-ḥaqq liyuẓhirahū ʿalā al-dīn kullih wa law kariha al-mushrikūn’ (‘He [i.e., Allah] sent him [i.e., Muhammad] with guidance and the religion of truth, so that He may make it overcome all religions, even though the unbelievers may dislike it’ in Arabic).
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