IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 266367 accession number: CM.737-2000 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Friday 13 November 2020 updated: Friday 10 January 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Fragment of a silver dirham struck under the reign of al-Mansur. The coin was struck in al-Basra (?) (Iraq) in AH 14[1-7] (CE 758-765) and is part of two or more Scandinavian hoards of the 10th and 11th centuries. title: dirham 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/266367 CATEGORIES ------ category: Islamic Coin category: Abbasids DATING ------ creation date: 758 - 765 creation date earliest: 758 creation date latest: 765 culture: 8th Century CREATORS -------- maker: al-Mansur DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: mm value: 24.8 dimension: Die Axis units: h value: 2 dimension: Weight units: g value: 1.04 CITATIONS -------- Sylloge of Islamic Coins in the Ashmolean 3. Early 'Abbasid Precious Metal Coinage (to 218 AH) ---