Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1817. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $375. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EARLY ISLAMIC, Samanids. al-Malik al-Sadiq Mansur I ibn Nuh, with al-Muti, caliph. 961-977. AV Dinar (4.27 gm, 10h). Bukhara mint. Dated AH 354 (965 AD)."Kalima, Muhammad rasul Allah, al-Muti allah, Mansur bin Nuh" in four lines across fields, pellet above, "al-Muzaffar" below, Quran 30.4-5 in outer margin, "bismillah struck was this dinar in Bukhar 'a (sic) in the year four and fifty and three hundred" in inner margin / "Umayyad Symbol" (Quran 112) in four lines across fields; "lillah" above, "al-Zufayd (?) below; "Second Symbol" (Quran 9.33) in margin. Kazan -; BMC -; Album 1464. Good VF. ($500)