A L9thC Khazar coin, found N Yorkshire--imitation dirham but w/ tamgha-like signs around edge: http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/629137 …pic.twitter.com/O6QsSWR9kg
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Better images: (1) 9C Khazar dirham, replaces Muhammad to read 'Moses is the Messenger of God' http://web.archive.org/web/20070928092148/http://www.myntkabinettet.se/notiser/spillings2.htm …pic.twitter.com/8o8GB4k1No
Better images (2) 9thC Khazar imitation dirhams w/ tamgha (clan identity mark)+w/ Ard al-Khazar (Land of the Khazars)pic.twitter.com/B5XPBVeMn0
@caitlinrgreen The Mughals used tamghas as medals of honour @BLAsia_Africa @DilliKiRanaiyan @DalrympleWill @ambrin_hayat @dpanikkar
@JAJafri even today medals are calked tamghas @caitlinrgreen @BLAsia_Africa @DalrympleWill @ambrin_hayat @dpanikkar
@DilliKiRanaiyan @caitlinrgreen @BLAsia_Africa @DalrympleWill @ambrin_hayat @dpanikkar The early Mughals were awarding their tribal badges?
@JAJafri @caitlinrgreen @BLAsia_Africa @DalrympleWill @dpanikkar It wasn't their tribal badge but as @DilliKiRanaiyan said, medal=tamgha.
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