361, Lot: 62. Estimate $150.
Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLAMIC, Arabia. Sulayhids. Local imitation. Circa AD 1000-1050. AV Dinar (22mm, 2.10 g). Local imitation. Album 1075.3. VF. Good gold content for issue.
From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Heritage 387 (22 September 2005), lot 12830.
Album (p. 120) notes: “These imitations may have been struck across the Red Sea in what is now Ethiopia of Eritrea, though most known specimens are said to have Yemeni rather than African provenance.”
