'Abbasid Caliphate. temp. Al-Rashid, AH 170-193 / CE 786-809. Fals (Bronze, 17 mm, 3.45 g, 6 h), citing ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿīd al-Ḥarashī, Ludd (Lodd), AH 185 = CE 801/2. Central field within ornate hexagon, in three lines: lā ilāha / illā Allāh / waḥdahū (‘There is no deity but God alone’ in Arabic); in margin: ḍuriba / bi-Ludd / [sanat / khams / wa-thamānīn / wa-miʾa] (‘Struck at Ludd in the year one hundred [and eighty-five]’ in Arabic). Rev. Central field, with ornaments above and below: Muḥammad / rasūl / Allāh (‘Muhammad is the Messenger of God’ in Arabic); in margin: mimmā amara bihī al-amīr ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿīd al-Ḥarashī mawlā amīr al-muʾminīn (‘From what was ordered by the amir ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿīd al-Ḥarashī, mawlā of the Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic). Album -, cf. B290 (citing a different official). Jeselsohn IV -. Lowick/Savage 217. SNA Tübingen IVa, 214-218. Zeno 117292 (this piece). Extremely rare. With clear official’s name. Deposits and flan faults on the edge, otherwise, very fine.