Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, 'Abbasid Caliphate. temp. Al-Rashid, AH 170-193 / AD 786-809. Fals (Bronze, 23 mm, 2.56 g, 10 h), citing the governor Khuzayma ibn Khazim and al-Qasim, Dabil (Dvin, the capital of Armenia), AH 189 = AD 804/5. Vardanyan 2011, 257. Very rare. Scratched and corroded, otherwise, fine.


Khuzayma ibn Khazim was the son of the important military leader Khazim ibn Khuzayma al-Tamimi and a close associate of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid.