Kharijite - a very are Arab-Sasanian propaganda silver drahm

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Titre

Kharijite - a very are Arab-Sasanian propaganda silver drahm

Créateur

Warden, W. Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Date

1984

Dans

Oriental Numismatic Society Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Résumé

The writer recently acquired a Kharijite silver drahm , which, on the basis of its date (AH 75 = AD 694), mint signature (ART - Ardeshir-Khurra, in Fars Province), marginal Pahlevi ("Bisi'llah" in second quarter) and Kufic ("La Hukma ilia lillah = No judgement save that of God" in third quarter), can be identified according to Dr. Dale L. Bishop as a propaganda issue struck by Kharijite counter Caliph Qatari ibn al-Fuja'a (see Figure 1). According to Dr. Bishop, "Another coin with the same mint, date and marginal legend has been attributed to Quatari by Walker-' on the basis of the name legend". See figure 2 for a similar drahm in the writer's collection. The name legend on both the ANS specimen (ex E. G. Weber collection) published by Dr. Bishop and the writer's, which is similar in every detail, have in place of Quatari's name and title the following Kharijite slogan: " L'(Y)T'd"twbl BR' yazd " = nest dadwar be Yazd = 'There is no Judge except God' in Pahlevi. Both coins are identical to Walker T 18 and the inscription also the same as M 53. A similar drahm in the Haddad Collection has been published by Dr. Heinz Gaube , arriving at the same conclusions as Dr. Bishop's. The great Pahlevi scholar, Salemann, seems to have been disregarded by Walker" who placed these coins in his uncertain governor's category. Perhaps this was because they were never illustrated by Mordtman and by Thomas when they published their respective coins and because their present disposition is unknown. If the coin published by Thomas (ex Bland collection) is the coin acquired by either the ANS or the writer, we have no way of knowing, but at the maximum, it would mean that there are four known Kharijite propaganda pieces of this date and mint in existence today, and also the one of AH 69, making it one of the rarest issues in the Arab-Sasanian series.

Langue

eng

volume

92-93

pages

4

Warden, W., “Kharijite - a very are Arab-Sasanian propaganda silver drahm”, 1984, bibliographie, consulté le 8 septembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/15112