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DOROTA MALARCZYK

Institute of Oriental Philology, Jagiellonian University
Cracow

samanid dirhams from raśt

In the Oriental part of the Early Medieval hoard from Obra Nowa1,
among the coins from Samanid dynasty, there occured a fragment of
a dirham struck in Rast in the year 360 AH (photo 2). This is the third
assemblage of coins found in Poland, after Zalesie2 (2 specimens, photos
1 and 3) and Dzierznica II3 (3 specimens, photos 4-6), to contain
a fragment of a dirham with the name of this mint. In the numismatic

1 A monograph on the Oriental part of the Obra Nowa is in preparation.

2 A. Kmietowicz and W. Kubiak, Wczesnośredniowieczny skarb srebrny z Zalesia powiat Słupca,
Vol. I: Monety arabskie (Wrocław 1969), p. 98, no. 222, and p. 100, no. 225.

3 I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to Ms. A. Kmietowicz for making avai-
lable to me the coins and their descriptions from the Dzierznica II hoard. (A cata-
logue of the coins from Dzierznica II is being prepared by Ms. Kmietowicz.) I am
also grateful to Ms. K. Schubert and Mr. J. Bodzek for supplying photographs of the
coins.

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