754 AD - 775 AD

Abbasid Caliphate  al-Muhammadiya
'Abd Allah al-Mansur   136 AH - 158 AH

Dirham AR 26
 SHH 135

135 Abbasid al-Mansur Dirham AR

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Provenance
 2.62 g   25.8-26.2 mm   0.5 eqmm   12:00 o'clock   EF
σmax(SigmaTest, 240 Hz) = obv. 26.2, rev. 24.9 MS/m
Central inscription لا اله الا / الله وحده / لا شرك له 
(There is no deity except / (the one) God alone / He has no equal);
Marginal Inscripiton بسم الله ضرب هذا الدرهم بالمحمدية سنة تسع و اربعين و مئة
(in The Name of God. This dirham was struck in al-Muhammadiyya
in the year nine and fourty and one hundred).
Central Inscription ع بن امير المؤمنين  لمهدي محمد  مما امر به ام
((Mim) From what was ordered by a..| l-Mahdi Muhammad |
Son of The Prince of The Faithful ('Ayn));
Marginal inscription
محمد رسول الله ارسله بالهدى و دين الحق ليظهره على الدين كله ولو كره المشركون
(Muhammad is the messenger of God. He sent him with guidance and the
true religion to reveal it to all religions even if the polytheists abhor it)
Heir al-Mahdi Muhammad. Mint of al-Muhammadiya, 151 AH. Toned.
Inscriptions from the "Islamic Coins in the Barrage Collection".
 Album 213.2; Barrage Collection; Laviox 649
Ex Stephen Album List 193/98, 25.11.2003