Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1937. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Mongols. Great Khans. Chingiz (Genghis). AH 602-624 / AD 1206-1227. AV Dinar (3.60 g, 12h). Urdu al-azam(?) mint. Struck in the name of the Abbasid caliph al-Nasir. Kalima in three lines across field; ornament above / Name and titles of al-Nasir al-Din Allah; “qa’an above. Nyamaa 33; cf. SNA Tübingen 66-7 (for obv.); Album 1966. VF, typical areas of flat strike. Rare.

From the Peter Y. Chang Collection of Great Mongol Coinage.