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104, Lot: 236. Estimate $150.
Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC DYNASTIES. Fatamids. Abu-Tamim Ma'ad al-Mustansir billah. AH 427-487 (1036-1094 AD). AV Dinar (22mm, 4.24 gm). Misr mint. Dated AH 456 (1056 AD). Kalima in inner margin around central pellet; "Ali is the most excellent of the executors and Vizier of the best of messengers" in middle margin; "Second Symbol" in outer margin / "al-Mustansir billah amir al-muminin" in inner margin around central pellet; "the Imam Ma'add bids to the unity of Allah the Everlasting" in middle margin; "Bismillah struck was this dinar in Misr in the year six and fifty and four hundred" in outer margin. Miles 360; cf. Kazan 614; Album 719. Good VF.

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Coin Galleries (20 August 1986), lot 4107..