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Auction: 8019 - Ancient, English, Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 140

Batinid Assassins of Alamut, Muhammad I bin Buzurgumid (1138-62), AV fractional Dinar, 0.62g, Kursi al-Daylam, AH553, Muhammad bin Buzurgumid named either side of Kalima (Album 1918;Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica 3 (1972), pp.155-162, coin 1), good fine, rare Estimate £ 200-300 The Assassins were an Isma´´ili sect famed for sending their warriors into battle high on hashish, hence their name of hashshashiyun (hashish eaters) from whence the term "assassin" is derived.

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