Silver dirham, Abbasid dynasty

An image of Coinage. Dirham. Madinat al-Salam mint. Abbasid Caliphate. Silver, struck, weight 1.05, g, diameter 20.4 mm, diameter (min) 13.3 mm, 796-799. Islamic.

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Coinage. Dirham. Madinat al-Salam mint. Abbasid Caliphate. Silver, struck, weight 1.05, g, diameter 20.4 mm, diameter (min) 13.3 mm, 796-799. Islamic.

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Accession Number: CM.1770-2008
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: GFX 50S
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 768 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 360.16kB
Exposure time: 1/100
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2017:10:26 03:08:09

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8th Century Abbasid Caliphate AD coin coinage currency dirham Early Medieval Fitz_CM fragment Islamic legal tender Medieval money Silver struck

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