IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 266376 accession number: CM.746-2000 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Friday 13 November 2020 updated: Friday 10 January 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Fragment of a silver dirham struck under the reign of al-Mahdi. The coin was struck in Madinat al-Salam (=Baghdad, Iraq); the date is illegible. The coin is part of two or more Scandinavian hoards of the 10th and 11th centuries. title: dirham NOTES ----- type: history note value: Under Review LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Coins and Medals STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/266376 CATEGORIES ------ category: Islamic Coin category: Abbasids DATING ------ creation date: 780 - 781 creation date earliest: 780 creation date latest: 781 culture: 8th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Al-Mahdi DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: mm value: 24.3 dimension: Die Axis units: h value: 3 dimension: Weight units: g value: 1.34 CITATIONS -------- Sylloge of Islamic Coins in the Ashmolean 3. Early 'Abbasid Precious Metal Coinage (to 218 AH) ---