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Maker(s):al-Rashid (minted under)
Culture:Near Eastern; Abbasid
Title:Dirham of al-Rashid
Date Made:796-797 CE
Type:Coin/Money
Materials:Silver
Place Made:Near East; Iraq; Madinat al-Salam (Baghdad)
Accession Number:  MH 2012.20.21
Credit Line:Purchase with the Marian Hayes (Class of 1925) Art Purchase Fund
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
Obverse: Three lines of Arabic text in field surrounded by a fourth in the margin. Two bands and five evenly-spaced annulets in the outer margin.
Obverse legend: [Arabic text]
Reverse: Four lines of Arabic text in field separated from a fourth in the margin by two bands
Reverse legend: [Arabic text]

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