al-Bahrayn

ISLAMIC COINS, ABBASID, A Hoard of Abbasid and Tribal Copper Fulus (approx 346), from the Region of al-Bahrayn, struck in the middle of the 2nd Century of the Hijra era, of a fabric and style unlike any other contemporary copper from Syria, Iraq or Iran; the hoard comprises three principal types: first were the official issues of local Abbasid governors at a time when the central government was trying to exert control over the region, the second bear governors' names and dates with the inscrip...

Lot 265