Various crude "qurudh" dammas/fractional dirhams, Sultan Ibrahim's Ghazna type, with the title “al-Sultan al-’Azam”, Ghaznavids. 7-10mm, 0.2-0.8 grams. Crude and poorly understood coinage. Fishman/Todd (Dammas), #GH26; cf. Zeno 337148.

The lot includes the exact 15 coins shown below (they are scanned on both sides).

Some interesting small dammas, struck on oddly shaped flans crudely clipped to the correct weight, are known from Punjab. Similar coins were seen during the Arab geographer al-Muqaddasi’s visit to Punjab in 985 CE. The were first published by Fishman/Todd (Dammas), #GH26.

“Qurudh” means “clippings” – this reference might be to small dammas named so by al-Muqaddasi because because of their tiny size or actual clipped coins which circulated in the area. Such clipped Samid and other coins and Ghaznavid daniqs struck on clipped flans circulated in the late 10th and 11th century CE and are sometimes found in Punjab and elsewhere in Pakistan and Afghanistan along with Sindhi, Multani and Ghaznavid daniqs on normal flans. These coins are small, but weigh on average about the same as the “normal” daniqs of Ibrahim (Type GH23). It seems likely that they were struck in Ghazna (or somewhere else in the core Ghaznavid realm) and not around Multan or in upper Sindh. 

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