1065EC9) ABBASSID GOVERNORS OF TABARISTAN, MUQATIL ( meaning fighter) 788-792 AD, AR HEMIDRACHM, WITH NAME OF MUQATIL IN ARABIC WRITTEN DOWNWARD IN FRONT OF SASANIAN PORTRAIT; ALBUM TYPE # 68 IN SHARP VF/XF CONDITION.
In a footnote Album mentions that � More recent research has suggested that the coins were known as dirhams, not halves, probably as Tabari dirhams. There is a text reference to the Tabaristan silver coin as � a dirham weight of five� i.e. 5/10 of a mithqual just over two grams, a weight corroborated by known specimens "