- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2000.198.20
- Title
- Islamic Coin
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Places
- Creation Place: Central Asia, Afghanistan
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/102049
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Bronze
- Metal
- AE
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 3.1 g
- Provenance
- The coins were purchased in 1944 by the donor Richard Frye, Professor Emeritus, in Kabul, Afghansistan.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Richard N. Frye
- Accession Year
- 2000
- Object Number
- 2000.198.20
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Seventy-six Islamic bronze coins ranging from the Ghaznavid period to the early twentieth century. Purchased in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1944.
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