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ABBASID: Abu Al-'Abbas Al-Musta'in Bi'llah (862-866), AR Dirham (2.77g), Dimashq (Damascus), AH 250.

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ABBASID: Abu Al-'Abbas Al-Musta'in Bi'llah (862-866), AR Dirham (2.77g), Dimashq (Damascus), AH 250.
ABBASID: Abu Al-'Abbas Al-Musta'in Bi'llah (862-866), AR Dirham (2.77g), Dimashq (Damascus), AH 250. Citing heir Al-'Abbas. A-- (unrecorded). Very fine. Unpublished and unrecorded. Unique, of the highest rarity.

For the caliph Al-Musta'in, dirhams of Dimashq (Damascus) are only recorded for the year AH 248, all of which are in very low conditions. This coin is the first known coin of Dimashq year AH 250, the only date, other than AH 248, of Dimashq now discovered for Al-Musta'in. Album's checklist does not list this type, which cites Al-'Abbas without prefix "Abu". This is, also, most likely the finest known Dimashq dirham of Al-Musta'in's reign.