Hello friends. I have the opportunity to acquire these two coins, associated with Abbasids Al-mansur Dirham. Would they say they are true or a modern fake?
Citeer: "Camerinvs"I believe they are authentic.
The second one was struck in Baghdad (aka Madinat as-Salam ─ مدينة السلام) in the year AH 160.
The first one has a lot of areas of flatness in the legend (as often) and is therefore more difficult to read.
The year is in the second picture, reading the circular legend starting at 5 o'clock and going back to 2 o'clock:
بسنة ستين ومئة
but there are no diacritics (dots and other symbols above and below the line), so take that into account if you want to compare the coin with the transcription.
Literally, this is in the year (بسنة) sixty (ستين) and (و) hundred (مئة). Forty would be اربعين.
For those interested in making sense of it (yellow = mint; blue = year):
I added the diacritics (dots and hamza) which are not on the coin.
Islamic coins generally have little appeal in the West because they all look the same and rarely show any iconography because of Islamic rules. They are, therefore, rather cheap compared to their degree of rarity.
For those who appreciate calligraphy, some of those coins are miniature works of art.