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ASSASSINS AT ALAMUT (BATINID): Muhammad I b. Buzurgumid, 1138-1162, AR fractional dinar (1.01g), Kur

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ASSASSINS AT ALAMUT (BATINID): Muhammad I b. Buzurgumid, 1138-1162, AR fractional dinar (1.01g), Kur
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ASSASSINS AT ALAMUT (BATINID): Muhammad I b. Buzurgumid, 1138-1162, AR fractional dinar (1.01g), Kursi al-Daylam (at Alamut), AH551, A-1918, Vardanyan-12 (4 pieces cited, most in museums), with the full name muhammad bin buzurgumid in the obverse field, legend 'ali wali Allah al-mustadi li-dn Allah nizâr in the reverse field, date sufficiently clear, VF, RR. Alamut ("eagle's nest") was a remote castle built at 2,000m atop a steep mountain north of Qazwin in Iran. For 166 years, it was the center of an Isma'ili state that consisted of a series of discontiguous mountain strongholds in a sea of hostile territories. Most famously, it was where trained assassins were dispatched across the Middle East to carry out high-profile assassinations as a means of defense against its numerically superior enemies. They claimed the lives of hundreds of prominent targets, including several Abbasid and Fatimid caliphs, Seljuq sultans, and Crusader lords. Alamut was finally conquered by the Mongols and partially dismantled, where a substantial ruin remains to this day.