Quote: "Pott"Thank you dltcoins!
I know very little about ancient coins. Could you help me a little more?
I can't find the coin in the Numista catalog, so I am sending in a request to add it. Please help me make sure I am entering it correctly. This is how I understood what you said:
AR Damma is the name of the coin
GG AS10 is a catalog number
Habbarids are the people?
Amirs of Sind = (Rulers) of Sind?
Is the country name "Indian States", "Islamic States", "Sind", or something else?
"c. 1030" is the date, as in "circa 1030"?
Which way should the pictures be turned? Which is the obverse and which is the reverse?
Thanks!!
The Habbarids are one of the Islamic dynasties. They ruled Sind (lower Pakistan) in the early Islamic period. Amir means "commander" or "governor" in Arabic. The various Islamic dynasties are named after the founder of the family line. The Habbarids were Arabs, descendants of one Aziz al-Habbari. The Habbarids ruled from the 9th century, nominally on behalf of the 'Abbasid caliph of Baghdad though in practical terms they exercised defacto independence. Habbarid rule was ended in the early 11th century. Not a lot is known about the Habbarids. The sequence of rulers and their dates are not well understood. Goron and Goenka (GG, "The Coins of the Indian Sultanates", 2001) list the rulers in alphabetic order. Steve Album ("Checklist of Islamic Coins", 3rd ed., 2011, p. 161, #1502), dates Ahmad circa 1030, "generally considered later than the others... His coins are of very different style and may have been struck at Multan".
There is one example of this coin on Numista, though it is misidentified in the catalog:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces112014.html
All of your images except the last should be rotated 90 degrees clockwise. The Arabic legends read
la ilah illa / Allah wadahu / la sherikh lahu // Muhammad / rassul / Allah amir / Ahmad ("There is no god but Allah alone. There are no others with Him. // Muhammad is the apostle of Allah. Amir Ahmad"). The first image is the obverse.
