CNG 109, Lot: 791. Estimate $2000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, 'Abbasid Caliphate. al-Muktafi. AH 289-295 / AD 902-908. AV Dinar (22.5mm, 4.57 g, 12h). Citing the vizier Wali al-Dawla. Filastin mint. Dated AH 291 (AD 903/4). First portion of the kalimat at-tawḥīd: lā ilāha illā-llāhu waḥdahu lā sharīka la (there is no god except Allah, and one [is] he; (there is) no partner to him) in three lines; name of Wali al-Dawla below; in outer margin, Sura 30 [al-rum]:4:4-5:1 li-’llah al-amru min qa[blu wamin ba’du wayaw]ma-idhin yafrahu al-mu’minūna binaṣri al-lahi (To Allah is the will before and after and on that day the believers shall rejoice in Allah’s victory); in inner margin, b-ismi-llāh zarb hazā āl-dirham bi-filastin fī sanat ihdā wa tis’īn wa mi’atain (in the name of Allah struck this dirham in Filastin in the year one and ninety and two hundred (after the Hijra)) / Second portion of the kalimat aṭ-ṭaiyibah: muḥammadur rasūlu -llāh (Muhammad is the messenger of Allah) and name of al-Muktafi in three lines; li-’llah above; 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 kollihi walau ka[riha al-mushrikūn] (Muhammad is the messenger of Allah; him He sent with guidance and true faith to make it prevail over all other faiths even though the polytheists may hate it). AGC I 228Gn; Album 243.2; ICV 425. VF, lightly toned, weakly struck at center, slightly wavy flan. Rare.