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Coins struck at Basra

2 catalogued coins and notes attributed to Basra, with weights, legends, dates and Wikimedia-sourced images across Arab-Sasanian & Early Islamic.

Arab-Sasanian & Early Islamic · 651 – 1258 CE

Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad

673–683 CE

Transitional issue — Sasanian iconography continued for 50 years after the conquest.

'Adud al-Dawla (Buyid)

AH 372 (982–983 CE)

The Buyids (934–1062) controlled the caliph in Baghdad while openly using Persian royal titulature on their coinage — a deliberate Iranian revival.