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Hey everyone! I wanted to share this coin and the story of how I found it. I was browsing eBay last week when I saw a lot of five Indian coins for under $4. Catching my eye, I clicked in to see that three were common post-1945 copper pieces, one was an unknown Arabic or Persian princely state coin, and one was this. The eBay photos were awful and I didn't expect the two pieces to be much but I've been trying to get better with Arabic coins and figured it could be a fun piece. I posted it in a FB group and someone was able to quickly help ID it.
AE Broad Fals | 30mm | 5.61g
403 AH (1012-1013 AD)
Mahmud of the Ghaznavid Dynasty
Bust Mint, present day Lashkargah, SW Afghanistan
Album 1614
The coin is very rare copper piece that does not commonly appear. The "Broad Fals" name is used to differentiate the pieces that are 30-35mm from the more common Fals that measure around 20-30mm. Stephen Album, expert and author of the standard book "A Checklist of Popular Islamic Coins" writes "the very broad fulus of Bust were never well struck, and most surviving examples are unpleasantly worn, damaged, or corroded".
An interesting tibit of information I found while researching this piece is that is was issued under the first Sultan. Sultan Mahmud was the first ruler across the Islamic world to use the title which would later be used across the world.
Here is the Zeno category of which my coin belongs. Here is an auction from Album where a similar AE Broad Fals from Bust, 403 AH sold for $110.