104, Lot: 240. Estimate $150. Sold for $155. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC DYNASTIES. Great Seljuks. Rukn ed-Din abu-Talib Muhammad Tughrul Beq ibn Mikail. AH 429-455 (1038-1063 AD). AV Dinar (21mm, 4.75 gm). al-Qa'im mint. Dated AH 447 (1056 AD). Kalima in four lines across field; bow and arrow tamgha above; Quran 30:4-5 in outer margin; "Bismillah [struck was this dinar in al-Qa'im] in the year seven and forty and four hundred" in inner margin / Quran 9:33 (part) in three lines across field; "Tughrul Beq/abu Talib" below; Quran 9:33 (part) in outer margin. BN 14; cf. Kazan 1017; Album 1665. Good VF. 

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection..