Islamic, Abbasid Harun al-Rashid هارون الرشيد (193-170 AH / 786-809 AD) AR Dirham. Umm Jaʿfar Zubayda
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Islamic, Abbasid Harun al-Rashid هارون الرشيد (193-170 AH / 786-809 AD) AR Dirham.
2.91gm, 22.2mm, minted in Maʿdan Bajunays (معدن باجنيس) in the year 191AH.
Citing Umm Ja'far (Zybayda) (ام جعفر" زبيدة زوجة هارون الرشيد" ) with Daud.
Z-378461 (It's me there) / see Album, Checklist, p. 53, footnote 131. Good very fine. Very Rare Armenian mint.
Please note:
Zubayda, one of the most famous queen in the History of Islam, commonly known in Arabic as "Umm Ja'far" (Mother of Ja'far) who was her eldest son and the future Caliph al-Amin. She was married to the great Harun al-Rashid. Most unusually for anyone who was not the ruler, let alone a woman, Zubayda issued her own coins and lived a remarkably independent life.
2.91gm, 22.2mm, minted in Maʿdan Bajunays (معدن باجنيس) in the year 191AH.
Citing Umm Ja'far (Zybayda) (ام جعفر" زبيدة زوجة هارون الرشيد" ) with Daud.
Z-378461 (It's me there) / see Album, Checklist, p. 53, footnote 131. Good very fine. Very Rare Armenian mint.
Please note:
Zubayda, one of the most famous queen in the History of Islam, commonly known in Arabic as "Umm Ja'far" (Mother of Ja'far) who was her eldest son and the future Caliph al-Amin. She was married to the great Harun al-Rashid. Most unusually for anyone who was not the ruler, let alone a woman, Zubayda issued her own coins and lived a remarkably independent life.