Abbasid: al-Saffah (749-754), silver dirham (2.75g), al-Kufa mint, AH 132 (749-750 CE). First year for Abbasid coinage.

Abbasid: al-Saffah (749-754), silver dirham (2.75g), al-Kufa mint, AH 132 (749-750 CE). First year for Abbasid coinage.

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Abbasid: al-Saffah (749-754), silver dirham (2.75g), al-Kufa mint, AH 132 (749-750 CE). Album 211. Extremely fine. First year for Abbasid coinage, struck in the same year the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate, establishing a new caliphate that would rule for more than five centuries.