{"id":55051,"date":"2026-02-26T14:32:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jetonscanada.com\/en\/product\/dirham-ah418-1027-8-ghaznavids-mahmud-silver-mahmudpur-mint-bilingual-coin\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:34:13","slug":"dirham-ah418-1027-8-ghaznavids-mahmud-silver-mahmudpur-mint-bilingual-coin","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/jetonscanada.com\/fr\/product\/dirham-ah418-1027-8-ghaznavids-mahmud-silver-mahmudpur-mint-bilingual-coin\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirham AH418 (1027\/8) Ghaznavids Mahmud Silver Mahmudpur mint Bilingual coin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"4\">AR bilingual dirham&nbsp;struck in AH418 (1027\/8), Iran (Pre-Seljuq), Ghaznavid dynasty, Yamin al-Dawla Abu&#8217;l-Qasim Mahmud (AH 388-421 \/ 999-1030 CE), Mahmudpur\/Mahmudabad (Lahore) mint<\/font><\/p>\n<div><font size=\"4\">Album 1610;&nbsp;Goron &#038; Goenka GZ5<\/font><span style=\"font-size: large;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Obv.:&nbsp;<\/span><font size=\"4\">Arabic legend: Shahada followed by yamin al-daula wa amin mahmud al-milla (&#8220;Mahmud, guardian of the faith&#8221;), al-qadir at left, billah above<\/font><span style=\"font-size: large;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><font size=\"4\">Rev.:&nbsp;Sanskrit legend in Sharada letters: avyaktameka muhammada avatar nripati mahamuda (&#8220;the Invisible is One, Muhammad is the manifestation, Mahmud the king&#8221;).<br \/><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=\"4\">2.90 g<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<div>\n<div style=\"\"><font size=\"4\">18.1 mm<\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"\"><font size=\"4\"><br \/><\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"\"><font size=\"4\">This fascinating coin&nbsp;<\/font><span style=\"font-size: large;\">was struck in Lahore&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">in that it is one of the few bilingual coins from this period, showing the Islamic professions of creed in both Arabic(<\/span><font size=\"4\">Kufic)<\/font><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&nbsp;and Sanskrit. Lahore&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">was renamed to Mahmudpur to honor Mahmud of Ghazni, the first Ghaznavid ruler to bear the title of &#8216;Sultan&#8217;.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"\"><font size=\"4\">______________________________<\/font><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AR bilingual dirham&nbsp;struck in AH418 (1027\/8), Iran (Pre-Seljuq), Ghaznavid dynasty, Yamin al-Dawla Abu&#8217;l-Qasim Mahmud (AH 388-421 \/ 999-1030 CE), Mahmudpur\/Mahmudabad (Lahore) mint Album 1610;&nbsp;Goron &#038; Goenka GZ5. Obv.:&nbsp;Arabic legend: Shahada followed by yamin al-daula wa amin mahmud al-milla (&#8220;Mahmud, guardian of the faith&#8221;), al-qadir at left, billah above. Rev.:&nbsp;Sanskrit legend in Sharada letters: avyaktameka muhammada [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":55052,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[474],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55051","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-world-coins","7":"pif-has-gallery","9":"first","10":"outofstock","11":"taxable","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetonscanada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/55051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetonscanada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetonscanada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetonscanada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetonscanada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetonscanada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=55051"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetonscanada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=55051"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetonscanada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=55051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}