Abbasid Caliphate. Bardha'a (in Armenia). temp. Yazid ibn Asid ibn Zafir al-Sulami AH 142. Citing the governor (Ostikan in Armenian) with the name of Yazid ibn Asid as-Sulami.
Fals AE

19 mm, 2,12 g

Legends in two lines and in outer margin / Legends in three lines and in outer margin.

good very fine, choice quality example.

SICA II, - A315. (RR). Acording to Album (A-315) Bardha‘a Mint (in Armenia), from 140s to 189s, always dated 157, But Years 142, 158 and 159 are the only ones occasionally seen.

Yazid ibn Asid as-Sulami was an Arab general and governor in the service of the early Abbasid Caliphate. He was active mostly in the Caliphate's northwestern frontier region, serving as governor of Arminiya and the Jazira and fighting against the Byzantine Empire and the Khazars. Also, Yazid was a member of the Banu Sulaym tribe, which had participated in the Muslim conquest of Armenia and been settled by the caliphs in the western Armenian borderlands with the Byzantine Empire. Refrence: Ter-Ghevondyan, pp. 29–30. From the Tareq Hani collection.