IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 244127 accession number: CM.126-2011 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 3 September 2020 updated: Thursday 2 January 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Fragment of a silver dirham struck in Madinat al-Salam (=Baghdad, Iraq); the date is illegible. The fragment was found in the Viking site of Torksey, Lincolnshire. title: dirham fragment NOTES ----- type: history note value: Under Review LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Coins and Medals STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/244127 TECHNIQUES ---------- struck CATEGORIES ------ category: Islamic Coin category: Abbasids DATING ------ creation date: 808 - 809 creation date earliest: 808 creation date latest: 809 culture: 9th Century DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: mm value: 10.4 dimension: Die Axis units: h value: 3 dimension: Weight units: g value: 0.25 CITATIONS -------- Viking winter camp at Torksey, 872-3 ---