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- Place of origin:
Egypt (certainly, made)
- Date:
1036-1094 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
unknown (production)
- Materials and Techniques:
stamped green glass
- Museum number:
5629M-1901
- Gallery location:
Glass, room 131, case 85, shelf 4
Coin weights such as this were used in Egypt under the Fatimid dynasty (969-1171). This example weighs 0.73 grammes and is thought to have been used to balance silver coinage weighing one quarter of a dirham. It was produced in the reign of the caliph al-Mustansir (1036-1094), whose full regnal name, al-Mustansir bi-llah, appears on the obverse, written in two lines. There is minimal decoration in the form of three pellets above and below the inscription, and a single pellet over the centre of the second line.
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