IDENTIFIERS
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id:	266369
accession number:	CM.739-2000

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Friday 13 November 2020
updated:	Friday 10 January 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Fragment of a silver dirham struck under the reign of al-Mansur. The coin was struck in Madinat al-Salam (=Baghdad, Iraq) in AH 157 (CE 773-774) (?). The coin is part of two or more Scandinavian hoards of the 10th and 11th centuries.
title:	dirham

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Under Review


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Coins and Medals

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/266369





CATEGORIES
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category: Islamic Coin
category: Abbasids

DATING
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creation date:	773 - 774
creation date earliest:	773
creation date latest:	774
culture:	8th Century

CREATORS
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maker: al-Mansur

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: mm
value: 23.5

dimension: Die Axis
units: h
value: 3

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 1.13



CITATIONS
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Sylloge of Islamic Coins in the Ashmolean 3. Early 'Abbasid Precious Metal Coinage (to 218 AH)
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