104, Lot: 241. Estimate $150. Sold for $375. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC DYNASTIES. Tulunids. Abu-Jaysh Khumarawayh bin Ahmad. AH 270-282 (884-896 AD). AV Dinar (23mm, 3.92 gm). Misr mint. Dated AH 282 (896 AD). Kalima in three lines across field; pellet below; Quran 30:4-5 in outer margin; "Bismillah struck was this dinar in al-Qahira in the year two and eighty and two hundred" in inner margin / Quran 9:33 (part) in three lines across field; "Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad/ha" below; Quran 9:33 (part) in outer margin. Grabar 67; BM 225; Kazan -; Album 664. Good VF. Very rare.

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection..