Abbasid Dirham (Minted in Al-Hashimiyah 139 AH) Reign of Abu Ja'far Abdullah al-Mansur
From the city of Al-Hashimiyah, this rare dirham appears. The year 139 AH represents the true founding phase of the state at the hands of Caliph Abu Ja'far al-Mansur, as Al-Hashimiyah served as a center for crisis management and stabilizing the pillars of rule. This piece is an eyewitness to a short-lived capital that paved the way for the rise of the City of Peace (Baghdad) and then vanished, leaving its dirhams as the sole evidence of its existence.<!-- notionvc: 9ffb27a9-c1c4-40bb-bf9b-fc85d7dd6361 -->
139 AH