Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, 'Abbasid Caliphate. temp. Al-Rashid, AH 170-193 / AD 786-809. Fals (Bronze, 22 mm, 1.87 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. Thick deposits and with some edge chipping, otherwise, about very 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.