Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1814. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EARLY ISLAMIC, Abbasids. Abu Muhammad Musa al-Hadi. 785-786. AR Dirham (2.76 gm, 9h). Haruniya mint. Dated AH 169 (785/6 AD). Kalima in three lines across fields, "bismillah struck was this dirham in Haruniya in the year nine and sixty and one hundred" in outer margin; six groups of three annulets around / "al-Khalifat al-Hadi muma amir bah Harunbin amir al-muminin" in three lines across fields, "kharimah" above, "bin kharim" below, "Second Symbol" (Quran 9.33) in outer margin. BMC 138; Album 217. VF. Rare ephemeral ruler, from a mint that only struck for three years. ($400)