coin-weight
- Museum number
- OA+.4223
- Description
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Coin weight: half-dīnār. Eight line Kufic inscription. Beaded border. Made of green glass.
- Production date
- 727-743 (AH 108-AH 115)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1.70 centimetres (stamp)
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Diameter: 2.20 centimetres
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Weight: 2.11 grammes
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- Curator's comments
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From the same die: Launois, Aimée. 1960. ‘Catalogue des étalons monétaires et autres pièces musulmans de la collection Jean Maspéro’ vol. 1. Paris, 9; Balog, P. 1976. ‘Ummayad, ʿAbbasid and Ṭūlūnid glass weights and vessel-stamps’. New York, 130.
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Yazīd's name accompanies that of Ḥafṣ on all but one of the latter's published coin weights, the exception being a third-dīnār weight in the Benaki Museum which has Ḥafṣ's name alone (Miles 1963 I, 16).
Bibliography:
Miles, G.C. 1963. ‘Contributions to Arabic metrology’ II (I. Benaki Museum). New York.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- OA+.4223