Darkside Gold.......anyone know what this is.?

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• DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,377 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 25, 2008 2:41AM

  Looks like a very beautiful sunset.

  "Gold is money, and nothing else" (JP Morgan, 1912)
  
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• adamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭

  July 25, 2008 2:42AM

  Wow!

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• SUMORADA Posts: 4,797 ✭

  July 25, 2008 2:44AM

  I hit the enter button prematurely...............

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• newsman Posts: 2,658 ✭✭✭

  July 25, 2008 2:45AM

  Islamic gold fractional dinar, probably Umayyad or Abbasid

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• SUMORADA Posts: 4,797 ✭

  July 25, 2008 2:56AM

  Islamic gold fractional dinar, probably Umayyad or Abbasid
  
  Thank you

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• newsman Posts: 2,658 ✭✭✭

  July 25, 2008 3:07AM

  
  
  << <i>Islamic gold fractional dinar, probably Umayyad or Abbasid
  
  Thank you >>
  
  
  
  It could also be from one of the later dynasties in Persia or central Asia. The weight and lettering suggests that possibility, though it's too worn for me to read it from a picture.

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• SUMORADA Posts: 4,797 ✭

  July 25, 2008 3:22AM

  
  I found this, it seems to be the same..........page 5, figure 5
  
  http://www.muslimheritage.com/uploads/Islamic Coins.pdf

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