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CNG Islamic Auction 2

Lot nuber 108

Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (26.5mm, 3.01 g, 10h). Al-Mubaraka mint. Dated AH 119 (AD 737). Good Fine.


CNG Islamic Auction 2
Lot: 108.
 Estimated: $ 2 500

Umayyad Silver and Bronze, Silver

Sold For $ 3 500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

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Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (26.5mm, 3.01 g, 10h). Al-Mubaraka mint. Dated AH 119 (AD 737). Obverse margin: jayyid, ‘good’, repeated three times between three concentric annulets. Klat 577.c (same dies as illustration). Toned. Good Fine. Excessively rare.

Klat lists three varieties of dirhams struck at al-Mubaraka in this year, all three of which have three concentric annulets in the obverse margin. Between these annulets, the margin can either be plain (Klat 577.a), or interspersed by three triplets of pellets (Klat 577.b), or by the word jayyid repeated three times (Klat 577.c), as here. Klat records just a single specimen of the latter type, struck from the same dies as the present coin, in his own collection.

This is the only instance of the word jayyid appearing on the Umayyad dirham coinage, although it was used on the very earliest Arab-Sasanian drachms struck in the 30s/650s (see lots XXXXX), where it appears in the second quadrant of the obverse margin in place of the more usual bismillah.

The final winners of all CNG Islamic Auction 2 lots will be determined during the live sale that will be held on 27 October 2022.

Winning bids are subject to a 22.5% buyer's fee for bids placed on this website and 25% for all others.

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