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COIN
Unique ID: YORYM-E5EB37
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A cut silver Dirham of Later Early-medieval date. The object is a cut fragment of an Islamic dirham, Samarid dynasty. Mint al-shash, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. AD 928-32.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 928
Date to: Circa AD 932
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 8.93 mm
Width: 6.76 mm
Thickness: 0.89 mm
Weight: 0.1631 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Fragment
Coin data (numismatics)
Denomination: Dirham
Ruler/issuer: al-Muqtadir
Category: Islamic coin
Type: Arab: Abbasid dirham, al-Muqtadir (Album 246)
Obverse inscription: CALIPH [AL-MUQTA]D[IR]
Reverse inscription: EMIR [NASR B AHMAD]
Degree of wear: Very worn: fair
Coin references
No coin references available.
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
District: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Cottam (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE9766
Four figure Latitude: 54.08079308
Four figure longitude: -0.5188166
1:25K map: SE9766
1:10K map: SE96NE
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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