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This is a really interesting coin! It imitates a Sāmānid silver dirham of Nasr II (913–42); the cross is suggested to represent Olga of Kiev's conversion to Christianity in perhaps the late 940s & the falcon(?) the goddess Freyja: https://academia.edu/20315581/Where_Did_Rus_Grand_Princess_Olga_s_Falcon_Find_Its_Cross & https://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/03/some-imitation-islamic-coins.html https://twitter.com/SueBrunningBM/status/1340599542958465026
A genuine silver dirham of Nasr II (or his father) minted at Samarkand & found in the 10th-century Thurcaston hoard, Leicestershire: https://emidsvikings.ac.uk/items/samanid-dirham-fragment-cm-840-2002/
Moving slightly earlier, a late 9th-century Khazar imitation dirham with tamgha-like signs on the outer edge, probably reused as a Viking brooch; found in North Yorkshire: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/629137
An imitation Islamic dirham found on Gotland, Sweden; issued in 837-8 by Jewish Khazars who added a reference to Moses: http://web.archive.org/web/20070928092148/http://www.myntkabinettet.se/notiser/spillings2.htm & https://www.academia.edu/11762043/_What_Does_Historical_Numismatics_Suggest_About_the_Monetary_History_of_Khazaria_in_The_Ninth_Century_Question_Revisited_Archivum_Eurasiae_Medii_Aevi_13_2004_
