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1 Dirham - Khalid ibn Ibrahim
| Issuer | Abbasid Caliphate |
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| Year | 755-757 |
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| Currency | Dinar (628/632-1598) |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by the shahada legend in two lines of Kufic Arabic script enclosed within a beaded inner circle. A surrounding marginal legend in Arabic Kufic script runs continuously within the outer border of the flan. The coin exhibits characteristic irregular flan shaping and green patination consistent with early Abbasid copper coinage of Khorasan. |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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Khalid ibn Ibrahim al-Dhuhli served as governor of Khurasan under the early Abbasids, a posting that carried minting authority in a region still consolidating after the revolutionary overthrow of the Umayyads in 750. Copper dirhams of this type are provincial issues struck outside the main silver-dominated monetary system, filling local transactional needs where full silver dirhams were impractical for small exchange.
The A#B209 reference places this among the rarer catalogued provincial coppers of the period — documentation for Khurasani copper from this transitional window is fragmentary at best.