112, Lot: 310. Estimate $150. Sold for $210. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC DYNASTIES. Abbasids. Abu-Ja'far Harun al-Wathiq billah. AH 227-232 (842-847 AD). AV Dinar (22mm, 3.91 gm). Madinat al-Salam (Baghdad) mint. Dated AH 228 (843 AD). Kalima in three lines across field; Quran 30: 4-5 (part) in outher margin; "Bismillah struck was this dinar in Madinat al-Salam in the year eight and twenty and two hundred" in inner margin / "Second Symbol" (Quran 9: 33) in three lines across field; "al-Wathiq billah beneath; remainder of Second Symbol in outer margin. Cf. Kazan 135; Album 227. VF.

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Kovacs X (18 May 1990), lot 34.