Extremely Rare Tulunid Dinar

302, Lot: 499. Estimate $1000. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Egypt & Syria (Pre-Fatimid). Tulunids. Harun bin Khumarawaih. AH 283-292 / AD 896-904. AV Dinar (21mm, 3.86 g, 12h). Halab mint. Dated AH 284 (AD 896/7). Grabar –; SICA 6, –; AGC I –; Qatar Museum II 2328 (same dies); Album 667. Good VF. Extremely rare, perhaps only the second or third known with this mint and date.