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CNG 90, Lot: 2003. Estimate $750.
Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Egypt & Syria (Pre-Fatimid). Ikhshidids. Abu'l-Musk Kafur al-Ikhshidi. AH 355-357 / AD 966-968. AV Dinar (22mm, 3.14 g, 4h). Filastin (al-Ramla) mint. Dated AH 355 (AD 965/6). Kalima and Arabic letter “t” across field; al-Quran Sura 30:3-4 in outer margin; mint and date formula in inner margin / Continuation of Kalima “salla Allah ‘alayhi”, and name of Abbasid Caliph across field; “l’llah” above; Umayyad “Second Symbol” in outer margin. Bacharach 104; Balog, Tables 355 Palestine; SICA 6, 210 (same dies); Lavoix 1269; cf. Album 680.1. EF.