Triton XX, Lot: 1142. Estimate $20000. Sold for $17000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. Ibrahim ibn al-Walid. AH 126-127 / AD 744. AV Dinar (21mm, 4.24 g, 7h). Unnamed (Dimashq [Damascus]?) mint. Dated AH 127 (AD 744). First portion of the kalimat at-tawḥīd: lā ilāha illā-llāhu waḥdahu lā sharīka lahu (there is no god except Allah, and one [is] he; (there is) no partner to him) in three lines; in outer margin, the “Umayyad Second Symbol” (Sura 9 [al-tauba]:33): muḥammadur rasūlu-llāh arsalahu bi-’lhudā wa dīn al-haqq lī-yuzhirahu ’ala al-dīn kolli (Muhammad is the messenger of Allah; him He sent with guidance and true faith to make it prevail over all other faiths even) / The “Umayyad Symbol” (Sura 112 [al-ikhlas]) Āllah ahad Āllah āl-samad lam yalīd wa lam yalūd (Allah [is] One; Allah [is] the Eternal, the Absolute; not begetting and not begotten) in three lines; in outer margin, b-ismi-llāh zarb hazā āl-dinār fī sanat iseb’ wa ‘ishrīn wa mi’at (in the name of Allah struck this dinar in the year seven and twenty and one hundred (after the Hijra)). AGC I 43; Album T140; ICV 221. Good VF, toned. Extremely rare and the rarest date among Umayyad dinars after AH 77.