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TEHRAN -- A number of pieces of ring-money have recently been donated to the Astan-e Qods Razavi Library and Museum in Mashhad, an official of the museum announced on Saturday.
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TEHRAN -- A number of pieces of ring-money have recently been donated to the Astan-e Qods Razavi Library and Museum in Mashhad, an official of the museum announced on Saturday.
“These pieces of ring-money, which are made of silver and bronze, were also been used as ornaments,” the museum’s coin, banknote and stamp section director Mohammad-Hassan Yazdinejad said in a press release.
The ring-money has been donated by an Iranian who lives in the United Arab Emirates, he added. No name was mentioned for the donator.
He said that the ring-money dates back to the second millennium BC. However he gave no details about the dynasty in which the currency was common.
Similar examples of these types of ring-money have previously been discovered in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and some ancient sites in south and west of Iran, Yazdinejad stated.
The museum is adjacent to the Shrine of Imam Reza (AS) in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad.
A number of artifacts have previously been donated to the museum by Emirates-based Iranians, who visited the museum and the shrine of Imam Reza (AS) over the past few years.
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