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An ‘Ayyār coin from Sīstān

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2009

Extract

The coin described below is in the collection of the American Numismatic Society, New York, and, so far as is known, is a unique specimen. The photograph and technical details are by kind permission of the Society, and the authors are grateful to Dr Michael Bates, Curator of Islamic Coins, for his helpfulness here.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1993

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References

1 Though deported first to Bukhārā by the returning Sāmānids, Abū Ḥafṣ ‘Amr survived, and was summoned back to Sīstān from residence in obscurity at Baghdad by the Khalafīd Ṣaffārid amīr Abū Ja‘far Aḥmad in 321/933; see Bosworth, , The Ṣaffārids of Sistan and the Maliks of Nīmrūz, ch. VI, section 2, p. 287Google Scholar.