Triton XIV, Lot: 1192. Estimate $3000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLAMIC, Mongols. Great Khans. Chingiz (Genghis). AH 602-624 / AD 1206-1227. AV Dinar (24mm, 4.46 g, 3h). Ghazna (Ghazni) mint. Dated AH 618 (AD 1221/2). Kalima and "al-Nasir ed-Din Allah/Amir al-Muminin" in four lines across field; Quran 9:33 in outer margin / "Khan of Khans, The Just, The Most Mighty, Chingiz Khan," in four lines across field; "Struck was this dinar in the city of Ghazna in the months of the year eighteen and six hundred. Spengler 16-18; CNR XXI, 1 (Spring 1996), 245-30-35; Album 1964. VF, typical areas of flat-strike.