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Maker(s):al-Mansur (minted under)
Culture:Near Eastern; Abbasid
Title:Dirham of al-Mansur
Date Made:766-767 CE
Type:Coin/Money
Materials:Silver
Place Made:Near East; Iran; al-Muhammadiya (Tehran)
Accession Number:  MH 2012.20.14
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 legend in field surrounded by a fourth in the margin. Three bands and four groups of two circles in the outer margin.
Obverse legend: [Arabic legend]
Reverse: Five lines of Arabic legend in field separated from a sixth in the margin by two bands. Band punctuated with circles in the outer margin.
Reverse legend: [Arabic legend]

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