Crude and poorly known Punjabi "qurudh" billon damma (1/5 dirhams) of Sultan Ibrahim's Ghazna type, with the title “al-Sultan al-’Azam”, Ghaznavids. 11mm, 0.61 grams. Fishman/Todd (Dammas), #GH26; cf. Zeno 337148.

Some interesting small dammas, crudely clipped to the correct weight, are known from Punjab. Similar coins were seen and described during the Arab geographer al-Muqaddasi’s visit to Punjab in 985 CE. The were first published by Fishman/Todd (Dammas), #GH26. This example is of high quality for the type, most of these are worn and have barely legible inscriptions.

“Qurudh” means “clippings” – this reference was to small dammas named so by al-Muqaddasi because because of their tiny size or actual clipped coins which circulated in the area. Such clipped Samid and other coins and Ghaznavid daniqs struck on clipped flans circulated in the late 10th and 11th century CE and are sometimes found in Punjab and elsewhere in Pakistan and Afghanistan along with Sindhi, Multani and Ghaznavid daniqs on normal flans. These coins are small, but weigh on average about the same as the “normal” daniqs of Ibrahim (Type GH23).