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Tag: red dinars
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Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). Dated: Shawwāl 400 AH (May–June 1010 CE). Abū l-Ḥasan Mubārak b. Asad al-Zajjāj al-Isrāʾīlī ("the Jewish glassmaker") receives a loan of five dinars from [...] al-Shaṭranjī al-Isrāʾīlī ("the Jewish chess player"). The dīnārs are described as "red" (danānīr ḥamrāʾ). There are a few words on verso in Hebrew script that Khan describes as a pen trial. (Information from Khan and from Goitein’s index card)