CNG 100, Lot: 512. Estimate $500. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Mongols. Great Khans. temp. Chingiz (Genghis). AH 602-624 / AD 1206-1227. AV Dinar (22mm, 2.39 g, 6h). Shum mint. Dated AH [6]18 (AD 1221/2). Kalima in three lines; knotted quadrilobe above; tendrils below; mint formula and AH date in outer margin / Kalima in four lines; mint name above; mint formula and AH date in outer margin. Nyamaa –; L. Adams & W. Warden, Jr., “An unpublished Mongol dinar from the mint of Shum issued by Chingiz Khan,” ONS Newsletter 159 (Spring 1999), p. 7 (this coin illustrated); Album B1967. VF, traces of toning in devices, a few scrapes and areas of flat strike at periphery.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from William B. Warden, Jr., September 1998.