1851.] An account of eight Kufic Silver Coins. 541 



Margin. &y° j ^j^* e j vt^j.^.! &i*« k^f^j *,>bj&!\ I<>a »riy^ **^ /»^ 

 Rev. Area a^i on*' *^l 



Margin. Koran ix. 33, <J=n e^te j ^^(i *J~»jl *U| Jj*»j ^^ 



No. 2. 

 Mahdi. Baghdad, A. H. 162. 



Obv. Area, as No. 1. 

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Rei>. Area Jj—j a+s* 



/♦>•*•«*» ^ &aJ.p 



Margin. Koran ix. 33. 



A second specimen struck at Basrah in A. H. 161, adds the name 

 of ^rc* below the ^s^J\ aiaWl 



No. 3. 

 *N6h bin Mansiir Samdni (unpublished). Balkh, A. H. 377. 

 Obv. Area 31 1 &S\$ 



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 7?ev. Area (i.*^ 



* As Sir H. M. Elliot's collection does not afford a good specimen of Samani 

 money, I have introduced this example from my own cabinet. 



I also subjoin a description of a Samani Coin in Mr. Bayley's collection, 

 which is, as far as I can ascertain, quite new in its type, and in spite of its defec- 

 tive preservation likely to prove of much interest in the unusually prominent asso- 

 ciation of the name of Nasr bin Ahmed, the founder of the line, with that of the 

 reigning sovereign, Noh bin Mansur. 



