IDENTIFIERS
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id:	226586
accession number:	CM.76-2011

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Wednesday 6 March 2019
updated:	Wednesday 18 June 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Fragment of a silver dirham struck under the rule of al-Mahdi. The coin is struck in Madinat al-Salam (=Baghdad, Iraq) in AH [16]1 (CE 777-778) and was found in the Viking site of Torksey, Lincolnshire.
title:	dirham

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Coins and Medals

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/226586





CATEGORIES
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category: Islamic Coin
category: Abbasids

DATING
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creation date:	777 - 778
creation date earliest:	777
creation date latest:	778
culture:	8th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Al-Mahdi


CITATIONS
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Viking winter camp at Torksey, 872-3
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