ABBASID CALIPHS
    The Umayyads lost, to use the Chinese phrase, the mandate of heaven through their bad government.  A revolt in the east drove them out of Damascus and Baghdad of current notoriety became the urban light of the Muslim world.  Perhaps the most well known of the Abbasid caliphs was Harun Al-Rashid: notably just, figured in the "Arabian Nights," presented an elephant to Charlemagne.

ABBASID, Al-Mansur, 753-775, silver dirham, Al-Muhammadiyya, 142 AH (759 AD), dents, F $15.00 sold 10/3/2007
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ABBASID, Al-Mansur, 753-775, copper fals, Qinnasrin, 157 AH (774 AD), A-290, F $21.00 sold 2/15/2010
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ABBASID, probably Al-Mansur, 753-775, copper fals, date & mint missing, aG $2.50 sold
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ABBASID, Al Mahdi, 775-85, silver dirham, Jayy, 163 AH (780 AD), VG $16.50 sold 2/3/2007
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ABBASID, Al-Rashid, 786-809, silver dirham, Al-Muhammadiyya, 170 AH (786 AD), another one, also F $16.50 sold 2/3/2007
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ABBASID, Al-Muqtadir, 908-932, silver dirham, Al-Basrah, 317 AH (929 AD), crude, part weak F $22.00 sold 2/3/2007
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ABBASID, Al-Muqtadir, 908-932, silver dirham, Madinat Al-Salaam, 319 AH (931 AD), A-246.2, some horn silver, VG-F $22.00 sold 2/3/2007
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ABBASID, Al-Radi, 934-40 AD, gold dinar, A-254, 323 AH (935 AD), Al-Ahwaz, F $155.00 sold 2/21/2008
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ABBASID, Al-Radi, 934-40 AD, gold dinar, A-254, 323 AH (935 AD), Al-Ahwaz, F+ $165.00 sold 11/12/2007
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ABBASID, Al-Mustansir, 1226-42, silver dirham, 639 AH (1241 AD), Madinat Al-Salaam (Baghdad), A-272, F $36.00 sold
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