103, Lot: 240. Estimate $100. Sold for $205. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLAMIC DYNASTIES. Abbasids. Abu-Ja'far Harun al-Rashid. AH 170-193 (786-809 AD). AV Dinar (22mm, 4.26 gm). Madinat al-Salam (Baghdad) mint. Dated AH 184 (800 AD). "Second Symbol" (Quran 9: 33), Kalima in three lines across field / "Bismillah struck was this dinar in the year four and eighty and one hundred" in outer margin, "By order of the amir al-Amin Muhammad, son of the Commander of the Faithful' in inner margin, "Muhammad the messenger of Allah" in three lines across field. Kazan 95; Album 218.3; MIW -. VF.