Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 870. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Fatimids. al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah. AH 495-524 / AD 1101-1130. AV Dinar (4.14 g, 9h). Misr (Cairo) mint. Dated AH 514 (AD 1119/20). “al-imam/al-Mansur” in two lines across field; continuation of name and title of al-Amir in inner margin; mint formula and AH date in outer margin / “al/ghaya” in two lines across field; “Umayyad Second Symbol” (Quran 9.33) in inner margin; Kalima in outer margin. Nicol 2536; Miles, Fatimid 466; Album 729. EF.

From the Norman Frank Collection.