Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1816. Estimate $300. Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006. Sold For $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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EARLY ISLAMIC, Abbasids. Abu-'Abdullah Muhammad al-Mu'tazz. 866-869. AV Dinar (4.32 gm, 5h). al-Shash mint. Dated AH 253 (867 AD). Kalima in three lines across fields,
Quran 30.4-5 in outer margin, "bismillah struck was this dinar in al-Shash 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 IX 342e; Album 235.1. VF. ($300)