Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 1146. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EARLY ISLAMIC, Abbasids. Abu'l-Ja'far Muhammad al-Mustansir billah. 1226-1242. AR Dinar (7.68 g, 11h). Madinat al-Salam (Baghdad) mint. Dated AH 623 (1226/7 AD). Kalima in two lines across field, "al-imam" above and "al-Mustansir billah/amir al-Mu'mimin in two lines across below; Quran 30: 4-5 (part) in outer margin; "Bismillah struck was this dinar in Madinat al-Salam in the year three and twenty and six hundred" in inner margin / "Second Symbol" (Quran 9: 33) and "sali Allah 'aliya" in three lines across field; "lillah" above; remainder of Second Symbol in outer margin. Kazan -; Album 271; MWI 236. VF. Rare. ($750)