Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1815. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EARLY ISLAMIC, Abbasids. Abu-'Abdullah Muhammad al-Mu'tazz. 866-869. AV Dinar (4.18 gm, 5h). Samarkand mint. Dated AH 253 (867 AD). Kalima in three lines across fields, Quran 30.4-5 in outer margin, in outer margin, "bismillah struck was this dinar in Samarkand in the year three and fifty and two hundred" in inner margin / "Muhammad rasul Allah al-Mu'tazz billah al-amir al-muminin" in five lines across fields, "lillah" above; "Second Symbol" (Quran 9.33) in outer margin. Kazan -; BMC -; Album 235.1. VF. ($400)