A silver coin was found dating back to the year 981 AH

[Hook111111]

This silver coin, which dates back to the year 981 AH, was found in an ancient metal detector called Classic L.D.

 

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[Doubter in MD]

Thanks for sharing this with us. So it dates back to the late 1500s on the Gregorian calendar, correct? About 1573/74 AD?

Where did you find it?

 

[cudamark]

It was found inside the detector?

 

[Hook111111]

Yas

 

[Hook111111]

I found it in a sandy site with pottery fractures scattered in several places. I was wandering around the device and I found this silver piece through the device.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congrats on the cool coin recovery!

 

[cudamark]

I found it in a sandy site with pottery fractures scattered in several places. I was wandering around the device and I found this silver piece through the device.

So, it was found USING a detector, not INSIDE the detector. Well done! Must not have been too deep. Those old Classic's were fine in their day, but, not real deep.

 

[CoinFetcher]

What the heck is ‘ah’

?

 

[Wildcat1750]

What the heck is ‘ah’

?

Yes, I am curious about that and what part of the world did you find this in, Hook111111?

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

What the heck is ‘ah’

?

I looked up A.H. and came up with Islam faith so it would be like A.D. in the Christian faith.

 

[cuzcosquirrel]

AH is the Islamic date from 622 being 1 AH, done as a lunar calendar since then. So 1113 AH is 1701 AD. 981 + 622 as (1) is somewhere in the 1670's. It's the period for the Every coins in Rhode Island, but it doesn't look Yemeni, and without a place where it was found, it could just be a belly dancer coin or off an African trade jewelry piece.

 

[Doubter in MD]

AH is the Islamic date from 622 being 1 AH, done as a lunar calendar since then. So 1113 AH is 1701 AD. 981 + 622 as (1) is somewhere in the 1670's. It's the period for the Every coins in Rhode Island, but it doesn't look Yemeni, and without a place where it was found, it could just be a belly dancer coin or off an African trade jewelry piece.

As I noted above, 981 AH equates to 1573/74 on the Gregorian calendar. I'm not supporting or refuting the claim of the OP. There isn't enough here to make that determination, IMO. I was just giving a more common reference for the time frame.

 

[cuzcosquirrel]

Yeah if you just plug it in, its recorded as 1573. It could be Mughal Empire, Mahomed Shah, India. Arabic coins from this time period are pretty scarce.

 

[A2coins]

Sweet find time to rip into that place.......