112, Lot: 313. Estimate $150. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC DYNASTIES. Fatimids. Abu-Ali Ma'ad al-Mustansir billah. AH 386-411 (996-1021 AD). AV Dinar (21mm, 4.03 gm). al-Mahdiya(?) mint. Dated AH 411 (1021 AD). Kalima in four lines across field; central pellet; "[Bismillah struck was] this dinar in al-Mahdiya(?) in the eleven and [four hundred]" in outer margin / "Abdallah wa waliya/al-Imam al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah Amir/al-Mumminin wa Abd al-Rahim/Wali ahad al-Muslimin" in four lines across field; "Ain" above; "[Bismillah struck was this dinar] in al-Mahdiya(?) [in the eleven and four hundred]" in outer margin. Cf. Miles 159; cf. Kazan 558-559; Album 709. VF. 

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection..