We also learn that most Jews [of Hamadan] were engaged in a somewhat shady antiquities business, fabricating and selling Greek- and Sassanian-style coins.
...apart from coin producing, the Jews of Hamadan were also involved in various modest trades (among them masonry, blacksmithing, tailoring, and shoemaking), in professions forbidden to Muslims (such as wine making or distilling liquor), with fewer numbers engaged in polishing precious coins and practicing medicine.
(Soli Shahvar, The 1892 Persecution of Jews and Baha’is of Jewish Origin in Hamadan, Jewish Quarterly Review, Volume 108, Number 2, Spring 2018)
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