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132, Lot: 269. Estimate $500.
Sold for $327. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC DYNASTIES, Abbasids. Abu Jafar 'Abdallah al-Mamun. 810-833. AV Dinar (20mm, 4.29 gm, 12h). Merv mint. Dated AH 215 (830/1 AD). Kalima in three lines across field; Quran 30: 4-5 (part) in outher margin; "Bismillah struck was this dinar in Merv in the year fifteen and two hundred" in inner margin / "Second Symbol" (Quran 9: 33) in three lines across field; "lillah" above; remainder of Second Symbol in outer margin. Kazan 129 var. (mint); Album 222A; MWI -. Good VF, scratches on reverse. Rare early issue from this eastern mint.