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Abbasid Caliphate. Sijistan .
Fals AE
22 mm, 4,22 g
Legends in three lines and in outer margin / Legends in four lines and in outer margin.
good very fine
For similar example see (A-335), according to stephen album sijistan fulus always dated from 142 to 194.
Apparently this is the only known example of sijistan mint without date.
Sistān (Persian) known in ancient times as Sakastān "the land of the Saka"), is a historical and geographical region in present-day Eastern Iran (Sistan and Baluchestan Province) and Southern Afghanistan (Nimruz, Helmand, Kandahar).
Sistan became a province of the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates. In the 860s, the Saffarid dynasty emerged in Sistan and proceeded to conquer most of the Islamic East, until it was checked by the Samanids in 900. After the Samanids took the province from the Saffarids, it briefly returned to Abbasid control, but in 917 the governor Abu Yazid Khalid made himself independent. He was followed by a series of emirs with brief reigns until 923, when Ahmad ibn Muhammad restored Saffarid rule in Sistan. After his death in 963, Sistan was ruled by his son Khalaf ibn Ahmad until 1002, when Mahmud of Ghazni invaded Sistan, ending the Saffarid dynasty.
From the Tareq Hani collection
Fals AE
22 mm, 4,22 g
Legends in three lines and in outer margin / Legends in four lines and in outer margin.
good very fine
For similar example see (A-335), according to stephen album sijistan fulus always dated from 142 to 194.
Apparently this is the only known example of sijistan mint without date.
Sistān (Persian) known in ancient times as Sakastān "the land of the Saka"), is a historical and geographical region in present-day Eastern Iran (Sistan and Baluchestan Province) and Southern Afghanistan (Nimruz, Helmand, Kandahar).
Sistan became a province of the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates. In the 860s, the Saffarid dynasty emerged in Sistan and proceeded to conquer most of the Islamic East, until it was checked by the Samanids in 900. After the Samanids took the province from the Saffarids, it briefly returned to Abbasid control, but in 917 the governor Abu Yazid Khalid made himself independent. He was followed by a series of emirs with brief reigns until 923, when Ahmad ibn Muhammad restored Saffarid rule in Sistan. After his death in 963, Sistan was ruled by his son Khalaf ibn Ahmad until 1002, when Mahmud of Ghazni invaded Sistan, ending the Saffarid dynasty.
From the Tareq Hani collection