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Description: | Silver Umayyad dirham of the Wasit mint, struck in AH 121 (AD 738/9). Mark Blackburn of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge comments that this coin would have been old at the time of the Anglo-Scandinavian use of dirhams in the late 9th and early 10th century, but there seems to be no reason to doubt that it was lost in this period. The Umayyads were members of the family of the prophet Muhammad who ruled the Islamic world as caliphs from their capital at Baghdad in the 7th and 8th centuries AD.Wasit is in Iraq, and is now the name of a province with its provincial capital at Al Kut. EMC 2006.0023
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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