(May 29, 2017)
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Mint | The coin clearly shows mint location being Wasit in current day Iraq | Size and weight | This is a silver dirham, weighs ~2.8 grams and is ~26 mm in diameter | References | It is Album 128, al-Ush #974, and is listed in Lane Poole Catalogue of the Collection of Arabic Coins Preserved in the Khedivial Library in Cairo Egypt as #182-187 | The dinar weighed 4.25 grams, or one mithqal, of the highest purity gold possible The dirham weighed about 2.85 of the purest possible silver composition, which would maintain a solid coin At the time the center of power and the main gold coin mint was located in Dimishq (current day Damascus in Syria), while silver coins were minted throughout the Muslim empire
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