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Description: | Copper alloy 8th century coin of Umayyad Syria, C. 20mm in diameter and 2mm thick. The coin has very uneven edges and surface and has patches of corrosion. The nature of the surface makes it difficult to see the design, but the obverse shows a series of circular shapes arranged in a pattern? the reverse shows a design resembling a series of capital E's with further circles at one edge. The coin may have been minted in Damascus (pers comm Julian Baker). It was found by chance in a back garden and it may have been lost by a Scandanavian in the 9th century? EMC pending | Subjects: | Foreign | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Scott, Wendy - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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