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A dirham of Isma'il ibn Ahmad, ruler of Central Asia from the Samanid dynasty, struck in Samarqand in 898/9 AD. It is these coins, produced in large quantities, that triggered processes that led to the formation of the Piast state in Greater Poland
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Dorota Malarczyk
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