Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 2094. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $1750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MONGOLS. Chingiz (Genghis) Khan (Temujin). 1206-1227. AV Dinar (23mm, 5.18 gm). Ghazna mint. Dated AH 618 (1221/2 AD). Kalima and "al-Nasir ed-Din Allah/Amir al-Muminin" in four lines across field; Quran 9:33 in outer margin / "Khan of Khans, The Just, The Most Mighty, Chingiz Khan," in four lines across field; "Struck was this dinar in the city of Ghazna in the months of the year eighteen and six hundred. Spengler 16-18; CNR XXI, 1 (Spring 1996), 245-30-35; Album 1964. VF, areas of flat-strike. Extremely rare. ($1500)

Ex Classical Numismatic Review XXI/1 (Spring 1996), lot SP245-32.

An attempt to foster peaceful relations between the Khwarizmshahs of Persia and the Mongols went horribly wrong when a greedy Persian governor robbed and massacred a Mongol diplomatic mission. The resulting war ended in the death of Shah Ala al-Din and the the complete conquest of Persia by Chingiz Khan. Jalal al-Din, the son of Shah Ala al-Din, held out at the end in Ghazna before fleeing to India in 1222. These rare dinars, one of the few gold issues in Chingiz Khan's name, were struck from the looted treasury of Ghazna.