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Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 1 ISLAMIC COINS. Arab Sasanian. Anonymous, Silver Drachm, obv Sasanian bust to right, in Kufic script Muhammad rasul Allah in front of bust in, Allah in Kufic retrograde to left behind bust, bism Allah in margin between 3 and 6 o’clock, rev mobehds (attendant priests) flanking fire altar, YZ (= Yazd) mint abbreviation in usual place of date on le...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 2 ISLAMIC COINS. Arab Sasanian. Arab-Ephthalite, “Gorigo Shah” (c.68-69h), Silver Drachm, Anbir (in Jurjan) 68h, 3.71g (Walker Arab Sassanian p.128:247; Album Checklist 90). Good very fine and very rare. The Drachms of the Arab Hephthalites are similar to those of the Arab Sasanians.This one is of the first type with the governor’s name in Bactria...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 3 ISLAMIC COINS. Arab Sasanian. Ziyad b. Qatran, Silver Drachm, Hamadhan 61h, obv Sasanian bust to right, Ziyad bin Qatran in front, bism Allah in margin between 3 and 6 o’clock, rev mohbeds (attendant priests) flanking fire altar, AHMTAN (= Hamadhan) to right, AYWShASTI (= 61h) to left, 2.85g (unrecorded for both governor and mint name). Clipped,...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 4 ISLAMIC COINS. Arab Sasanian. Abbasid Governor of Tabaristan, Rawh b. Hatim, al-Mahdi as heir, Silver Hemidrachm, Tabaristan 146h, 1.94g (unpublished by Malek, see Album S73). Good very fine and very rare. This is a previously unrecorded type of Hemidrachm of Tabaristan where the name of the caliph al-Mahdi as heir appears on the obverse, and th...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 5 † ISLAMIC COINS. Arab Sasanian. Umayyad, Mu’awiya b. Abi Sufyan (41-60h), Uniface Lead Seal, c.44h/664 CE, in unpointed Kufic script, mimma ‘amara bi-hi/amir al-mu’minin/Mu’awiya bi-‘azl a/l-amir ‘Abd Allah bin ‘A/mir min wilaya fi-/al-Basra, “among those things ordered by the Commander of the Faithful Mu’awiya to dismiss the Amir ‘Abd Allah b...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 6 † ISLAMIC COINS. Arab Sasanian. Muhammad b. Marwan, Governor of the North 73-91h, Glass Weight, 282.13g, 50mm, hadha / ma’izzan saba’in / mithqal mi’a / dirham ‘amara bi-hi / Muhammad bin Marwan, “this standard weight is equal to 70 mithqals 100 dirhams by order of Muhammad bin Marwan”. Broken but skilfully repaired, which makes it impossible to...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 7 † ISLAMIC COINS. Arab Byzantine. temp. ‘Abd al-Malik b. Marwan, Dechristianised copy of a Byzantine Gold Solidus of the Emperor Heraclius and his two sons, cross removed from the three crowns and the three orbs converted to three knobs, undated (c.72-74h), rev the cross has been removed from the vertical staff which terminates with a small knob ...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 8 ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. Anonymous , Silver Dirham, Wasit 44h (sic) , 2.75g (mint and date combination unrecorded by Klat in Post Reform Dirhams ). Very fine and very rare. This coin, while a genuine Umayyad Dirham, bears an impossible mint and date combination.It is possible that an inexperienced die-sinker in the newly-established Wasit mint ab...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 9 ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. A Set of the Umayyad reform Gold Coinage, Dinars (56), Anonymous, without mint name temp. ‘ Abd al-Malik b. Marwan: 77h, 4.13g, possibly ex-mount, polished, very fine ; In the year 77h of the Hijra the Caliph ‘Abd al-Malik introduced a fully Islamic gold coin carrying legends found in the Holy Qur’an.This is the most sou...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 10 † ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. ‘Umar II, Gold Dinar, Ifriqiya 100h, 4.18g (Bernardi 44 Ca, 1 ref). Good extremely fine and extremely rare. This is the earliest Umayyad post-reform Dinar struck in Ifriqiya, probably in the city of Qayrawan in Tunisia, in 100h.Although it is a full Dinar, its legends are identical to those found on the ½-Dinar de...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 11 † ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. ‘Umar II/Yazid II, Gold Dinar, Ifriqiya 101h, 4.21g (Bernardi 44 Ca). Extremely fine and rare. £15,000-20,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 12 † ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. ‘Umar II/Yazid II, Gold ½-Dinar/Nisf, without mint name 101h, 2.07g (Bernardi 45). Good very fine and extremely rare. This is the last recorded ½-Dinar struck in the east.The ½-Dinar denomination was much rarer than the thulth or ⅓- Dinar and is readily distinguished from the latter by the prominent pellet found b...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 13 † ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. Yazid II (101-105h), Gold Dinar, Ifriqiya 102h, 4.26g (Bernardi 44 Ca). Extremely fine and rare. £15,000-20,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 14 † ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. Yazid II , Gold Dinar, al-Andalus 102h, 4.30g (Bernardi 44 Aa). Softly struck in the centre, extremely fine and very rare. £20,000-25,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 15 † ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. Yazid II , Gold ½-Dinar/Nisf, al-Andalus 102h, 2.14g (Bernardi 45 Aa). Extremely fine and extremely rare. £20,000-25,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 16 † ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. Yazid II , Gold ⅓ -Dinar/Thulth, al-Andalus 102h, 1.46g (Bernardi 46 Aa). About uncirculated and extremely rare. While all three of the coins in lots 14 to 16 are individually very rare, to have all three offered in one sale is a truly exceptional opportunity.At present the only known set is in the American Numism...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 17 ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. Yazid II/Hisham, Gold Dinar, Ma’dan al-Mu’minin al-Hijaz (“Mine of the Commander of the Faithful (in) the Hijaz”) 105h, 4.27g (Bernardi 48 Ed; Album 134K). Uncirculated and extremely rare. This is arguably the most important coin ever struck in the Arabian Peninsula.It is the earliest gold coin which names a localit...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 18 † ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. Hisham , Gold Dinar, Ifriqiya 114h, 4.26g (Bernardi 43 Ca). Metal defect on the obverse at 3 o’clock, good very fine and extremely rare. By this time the legends on the gold Dinars in both east and west followed the same wording and pattern, with the exception of the Umayyad mints in Ifriqiya and al-Andalus which ...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 19 † ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. Hisham , Gold Dinar, Ifriqiya 122h, 4.27g (Bernardi 43Ca, the latest Dinar recorded from Ifriqiya). Slightly double struck on the obverse, otherwise extremely fine and extremely rare. It is possible that this coinage was struck to support the first Muslim campaign against the Byzantines in Sicily. £50,000-60,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 20 † ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. ‘Abd al-Malik, Silver Dirham, Bardasir 79h, 2.93g (Klat Post-Reform Umayyad Dirhams 158, 1 ref) Stained in places, otherwise extremely fine and very rare. Bardasir is the first of the five khurras (districts) in the province of Kirman, at the location of the modern city of Kirman. £8,000-10,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 21 ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. ‘Abd al-Malik, Silver Dirham, Bizamqubadh 79h, 2.77g (Klat 160, 2 refs). Cleaned, very fine and very rare. Bizamqubadh was apparently the original name of the town of Arrijan, the principal town of the third khurra in the province of Fars. £8,000-10,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 22 † ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. ‘Abd al-Malik, Silver Dirham, al-Zawabi 79h, 2.94g (Klat 414, 1 ref). Crude, about extremely fine and extremely rare. While the mint name is clearly inscribed, the locality has not been fully identified.One expert considers that it was in Iraq. ex Islamic Coin Auction 14, Baldwin’s, July 2008, lot 29 £20,000-25,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 23 ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. ‘Abd al-Malik, Silver Dirham, Fil 79h, 2.78g (Klat 514, 16 refs). Very fine, ex-mount. Fil (which means elephant) is an unsatisfactory reading.The town of Fil, known to have been to have been in Afghanistan, had not yet been conquered at this time.However, other readings have not yielded any better alternative. £6,...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 24 ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. ‘Abd al-Malik, Silver Dirham, Mah al-Basra 79h, 2.71g (Klat 550, 13 refs). About extremely fine and rare. Mah al-Basra was the Arab name for the town of Nihawand in the province of Jibal.It received its name because its revenues were allocated to pay the pensions of veterans in al-Basra in Iraq. £4,000-5,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 25 ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. ‘Abd al-Malik, Silver Dirham, Risha (= Ras al-‘Ayn) 80h, 3.07g (date for mint unrecorded by Klat). Ringed, pierced and plugged, otherwise very fine and extremely rare. The name Risha was originally read as “Ralsa”, which was an unsatisfactory reading for an enigmatic mint name.Coins from this mint, located on the gr...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 26 ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. ‘Abd al-Malik, Silver Dirham, Hirat 80h, obv mint name in Pahlawi in fourth line, 2.77g (variety unrecorded by Klat). Oxidised surfaces, about extremely fine and rare This is the third mint in Khurasan which inscribed its mint name in both Arabic and in Pahlawi on its reform-style Umayyad Dirhams, the others being M...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 27 ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. ‘Abd al-Malik, Silver Dirham, Dasht-i Maysan 80h, 2.68g (Klat 319, 9 refs). Oxidised surfaces, about extremely fine and rare. Dasht-i Maysan is a flat and desolate piece of oil-rich land adjoining the Shatt al-Arab on the border of Iran and southern Iraq. £4,000-5,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 28 ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. ‘Abd al-Malik, Silver Dirham, Nahr Tirâ 80h, 2.83g (Klat 638, 10 refs). Cleaned, good very fine and rare. Nahr Tirâ is a town in Khuzistan in south-western Iran. £4,000-5,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 29 ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. ‘Abd al-Malik, Silver Dirham, Ramhurmuz 81h, 2.60g (Klat 381, 1 ref). About very fine and extremely rare. Ramhurmuz is another town in the province of Khuzistan. £6,000-8,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 30 † ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. ‘Abd al-Malik, Silver Dirham, Tawwaj 82h, 2.91g (Klat 199, the only date recorded, 2 refs). Extremely fine and extremely rare. Tawwaj was an important commercial town on the trade route between Shiraz and the port of Jannaba in the province of Fars.It is known for only a single Umayyad reform-style Dirham, althoug...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 31 † ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. al-Walid, Silver Dirham, al-Niq 89h, 2.90g (Klat 649, 5 refs). Extremely fine and very rare. This is another enigmatic Umayyad mint name.The only known date for “al-Niq”, 89h, identifies it as one of the northern campaign mints and its Arabic spelling almost certainly conceals its real name.In his Checklist Album ...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 32 ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. al-Walid (86-96h) , Silver Dirham, Risha (= Ras al-‘Ayn) 90h, 2.65g (Klat 392, 2 refs). Good very fine and extremely rare The name Risha was originally read as “Ralsa”, which was an unsatisfactory reading for an enigmatic mint name.Coins from this mint, located on the greater Khabur River in the Diyar Rabia distri...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 33 ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. al-Walid, Silver Dirham, Harran 91h, 2.79g (date for mint unrecorded by Klat). Very fine and extremely rare. Harran was located in the Diyar Mudar district of al-Jazira, traditionally known to have been the birthplace of the Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham).Umayyad Dirhams from this mint are notably rare and this date is p...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 34 ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. te mp. al-Walid, Silver Dirham, Dard 93h, 2.66g (Klat 303, 3 refs). Very fine and very rare. It has been commonly thought that Dard is merely an abbreviation of the mint name Darabjird, but it is more likely that it was a separate but as yet unidentified location.A coin of this mint has also been recorded from the year 7...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 35 ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. al-Walid, Silver Dirham, al-Jazira 95h, 2.89g (Klat 220, 5 refs). Extremely fine and very rare. al-Jazira is the provincial name usually considered to be the town of Jazirat ibn ‘Umar in the Diyar Rabia district. £5,000-6,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 36 ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. al-Walid/Sulayman , Silver Dirham, Bizamqubadh 96h, 2.65g (date for mint unrecorded by Klat). Very fine and extremely rare. This is the latest recorded date for the mint of Bizamqubadh. Bizamqubadh was apparently the original name of the town of Arrijan, the principal town of the third khurra in the province of Fars...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 37 ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. Sulayman (96-99h), Silver Dirham, Khusraw Shadh Hurmuz 97h, 2.83g (Klat 284, 8 refs). Very fine and very rare. This mint is only known for 97h.It was a district to the east of the Tigris River and it is one of those sporadic Iraqi mints for which there is no explanation. £8,000-10,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 38 ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. Sulayman , Silver Dirham, Maysan 97h, 2.85g (Klat 635, 5 refs). Good very fine and rare. Maysan was another subdistrict located in southern Iraq near al-Basra.See also Dasht-i Maysan for an adjoining subdistrict where coins were also struck. £5,000-6,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 39 ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. ‘Umar II b. ‘Abd al-‘Aziz (99-101h) , Silver Dirham, Ifriqiya 100h, 3.21g (date for mint unrecorded by Klat). Mounted and gilt, about extremely fine and very rare This handsome coin fills in a gap in the important Dirham series from the mint of Ifriqiya.It was clearly a valued object because of its gilding and caref...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 40 ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. te mp. ‘Umar II , Silver Dirham, al-Sus 100h, unrecorded rectangular countermark on Dirham of al-Taymara (?) 90h, downward on left amr Allah, at base bi’l-wafa, upwards on right wa ‘adil, at top bi’l Sus/sana/mi’a , 2.32g. Countermark extremely fine and very rare, the coin ex-mount, about fine al-Sus, the ancient Susa, i...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 41 ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. ‘Umar II/Yazid II, Silver Dirham, Sijistan 101h, 2.84g (Klat 493, 3 refs). Good very fine and very rare. Sijistan is the name of the great province of south-western Afghanistan where its coinage was probably struck in the capital town Zaranj. £6,000-8,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 42 ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. Hisham (105-125h), Silver Dirham, Ifriqiya 107h, 2.85g (Klat 94, 2 refs). Very fine and very rare. This is yet another rare Dirham from the mint of Ifriqiya. £8,000-10,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 43 ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. Hisham, Silver Dirham, al-Bab 117h, 2.79g (Klat 144, 2 refs). About extremely fine and very rare. al-Bab, meaning “the gate”, today’s Derbend, was located at one of the pinch-points for trade between the Caucasus and the north into the lands south of the mountains.Presumably traders wishing to do business in the Dar...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 44 ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. Marwan II (127-132h), Silver Dirham, Sijistan 128h, 2.62g (Klat 446, 1 ref). Very fine and extremely rare. Despite the growing Abbasid revolution in the eastern Islamic lands, it appears from this coin and the next that Sijistan remained loyal to the Umayyad house. £8,000-10,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 45 ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. Marwan II, Silver Dirham, Sijistan 129h, 2.90g (Klat 447 but annulets as 446). Good very fine and very rare. £6,000-8,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 46 ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. Marwan II, Silver Dirham, Dimashq 130h, 2.46g (Klat 474, 3 refs). Very fine and very rare. When Marwan II moved his seat of government northwards to his old gubernatorial territories in the Jazira the mint of Damascus lost much of its importance and its coinage becomes much rarer than before.130h is the rarest date ...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 47 ISLAMIC COINS. Umayyad. temp. Marwan II , Silver Dirham, Dimashq 132h, 2.83g (Klat 376a, 5 refs). Very fine and very rare. £4,000-5,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 48 ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid Revolution. temp. ‘Abd Allah b. Mu‘awiya (127-129h), Silver Dirham, Darabjird 129h, 2.76g (Klat 302, 2 refs). Cleaned, about very fine and very rare. The history of the various revolutionary movements at the end of the Umayyad period is confusing.The goal of the Shi’a revolutions of ‘Abd Allah bin Mu’awiya and the Abbasids...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 49 ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid Revolution. temp. ‘Abd Allah b. Mu‘awiya, Silver Dirham, Jayy 130h, 2.91g (Klat 271, 4 refs). Cleaned, extremely fine and very rare. £4,000-5,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 50 † ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. temp. al-Saffah (132-137h), Gold Dinar, without mint name 132h, 4.24g (Bernardi 51). Scratched in the obverse field, spade mark in the reverse field, otherwise very fine and very rare. The Abbasid revolution was displayed in the coinage by substituting the words of Qur’an surah 112 with the second p...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 51 † ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. temp. al-Saffah, Gold Dinar, without mint name 132h, 4.21g (Bernardi 51). Extremely fine and rare. There are two distinct styles of calligraphy in the dies that struck the Dinar coinage of al-Saffah.The first (see previous lot) is somewhat cruder and less refined than the second.This coin, with its ...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 52 † ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. Harun al-Rashid (170-193h), Gold Dinar, without mint name 171h, rev field: Muhammad rasul Allah/mimma amira bihi ‘Abd Allah/Harun Amir al-Mu’minin , 3.08g (Bernardi 58b; Album 218.1). Clipped, as normally found, some scratches in lower reverse field, but extremely fine and rare, especially in this c...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 53 al-Ma’mun (104-218h)/Tahir, Gold Dinar, no mint name 198h, rev inner margin: mimma amira bihi ‘Abd Allah ‘Abd Allah amir al-mu’minin (“among those things ordered by the servant of God ‘Abd Allah (al-Ma’mun), Commander of the Faithful”), field fourth line: Tahir, 4.18g (Bernardi 87, 4 refs; Album 222.6T). Slightly clipped, good very fine and rar...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 54 ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. al-Mu’tasim (218-227h), Gold Dinar, Dimashq 225h, 4.08g (Bernardi 151 Ge, 3 refs). Very fine and rare. The reign of al-Mu’tasim introduced the use of standard legends on both the gold and silver coinage, the only difference being the name of the denomination - Dinar or Dirham.Also, as in this case, al...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 55 ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. al-Mutawakkil (232-247h), Gold Donative Dinar, Surra man ra’a 239h, 4.29g (Bernardi 157 Je, but unrecorded date for type). Crimped, good very fine and very rare. It is recorded that the Caliph al-Mu’tasim left Baghdad in 220h in search of a site for a new capital which would be free from the factional...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 56 † ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. al-Mutawakkil, Gold Dinar, Arminiya 246h, 4.21g (Bernardi 158 Kb, 2 refs). Some scratches in the fields, otherwise very fine and very rare. Arminiya was the name of the province of Armenia in which this coin was struck.A Dinar of al-Mutawakkil of the same type is also recorded from Dabil, the capita...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 57 ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. al-Muntasir (247-248h), Gold Dinar, al-Kufa 248h, 4.20g (not listed in Bernardi). Light scratches in obverse field, otherwise extremely fine and completely unpublished. Coinage of al-Muntasir is among the rarest in the Abbasid series.He joined in the conspiracy to murder his father, al-Mutawakkil, and...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 58 † ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. al-Muhtadi (255-256h), Gold Dinar, San‘a’ 256h, 2.80g (Bernardi 167 El, 5 refs). Good very fine and very rare. The coins of al-Muhtadi are, after those of al-Muntasir, the rarest in the Abbasid series.He came to the throne after the murder of his predecessor al-Mu’tazz and was himself murdered the f...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 59 ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. al-Mu’tamid (256-279h), Gold Dinar, Fars 273h, 4.21g (Bernardi does not record this mint for al-Mu’tamid ). Good very fine and very rare. In 273h. the mint of Fars initially struck coinage in the name of the Saffarid ‘Amr bin al-Layth and subsequently in that of the Caliph al-Mu’tamid, al-Nasir li-din...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 60 ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. al-Mu’tamid, Gold Dinar, Wasit 274h, 3.76g (Bernardi 184 Jm, 1 ref). Good very fine and very rare. Although Dirhams from the mint of Wasit during this reign are well known, Dinars are exceptionally rare. £4,000-5,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 61 ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. al-Mu’tamid, Gold Dinar, Hamadhan 277h, 4.28g (Bernardi does not record this mint for this type). Good very fine, small edge weakness, very rare. This is a pure Abbasid coin from Hamadhan struck during the period when the town was ruled by the Dulafid princes Ahmad and later ‘Umar bin ‘Abd al-‘Aziz. £...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 62 ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. al-Mu’tadid (279-289h), Gold Dinar, Surra man ra’a 279h, 4.13g (Bernardi does not record a Dinar from this mint for al-Mu’tadid). Extremely fine and very rare. The Caliph al-Mu’tadid returned the capital from Surra man ra’a to Madinat al-Salam in 279h.This would appear to be the last Dinar struck whil...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 63 † ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. al-Mu’tadid, Gold Medallion Dinar, Barda’a 286h, 4.13g (Bernardi does not record a Dinar from this mint for al-Mu’tadid). Extremely fine and very rare. This remarkable and very beautiful coin was struck in the Azeri city of Barda’a, probably while al-Mu’tadid was on military campaign in the region.I...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 64 ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. al-Mu’tadid, Gold Dinar, Wasit 287h, 2.12g (Bernardi does not record a Dinar from this mint for al-Mu’tadid). Good very fine and very rare. As in the reign of al-Mu’tamid, Dirhams continued to be struck at the mint of Wasit in that of al-Mu’tadid, but Dinars are rarely encountered. £5,000-6,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 65 ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. al-Muktafi (289-295h), Gold Dinar, Ras al-‘Ayn 289h, 3.94g (Bernardi 226 Hl, 1 ref). Extremely fine and very rare. £6,000-8,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 66 ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. al-Muktafi, Gold Dinar, Wasit 291h, 4.00g (Bernardi 228 Jm, 2 refs). About extremely fine and very rare. £3,000-4,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 67 ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. al-Muktafi, Gold Dinar, Amid 292h, 4.26g (Bernardi 226 Ha, 1 ref). Extremely fine and very rare. Amid, today’s city of Diyarbakir in south-eastern Turkey, was taken from the Byzantines in 286h.While its silver coinage is rare, the gold coinage is known for only two years, 292h and 293h. £5,000-6,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 68 ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. al-Muktafi, Gold Dinar, Mah al-Kufa 293h, 4.62g (Bernardi 226 Mr, 2 refs). About extremely fine and very rare. £4,000-5,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 69 ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. al-Muktafi, Gold Dinar, Wasit 293h, 4.03g (Bernardi 226 Jm, 1 ref). Extremely fine and very rare. £4,000-5,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 70 ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. al-Muqtadir (295-320h), Gold Dinar, Antakiya 299h, without name of heir, 4.16g (unrecorded see Bernardi 242 Ga). Extremely fine and extremely rare. It is difficult to explain the existence of this coin because it lacks the name of the caliph’s heir, Abu’l-‘Abbas in the obverse field.It was customary t...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 71 † ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. al-Muqtadir, Gold Dinar, al-Rahba 302h, 3.71g (Bernardi does not record a Dinar from this mint for al-Muqtadir). Good extremely fine and extremely rare. al-Rahba was a town in Syria to the west of Qarqisiya on a canal which paralleled the Euphrates River.It only appears occasionally in the coinage r...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 72 ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. al-Muqtadir, Gold Dinar, Halab 304h, 3.54g (Bernardi 242 Gb, 1 ref). Good very fine and very rare. Bernardi records Dinars struck at the mint of Halab (Aleppo) in the years 297h, 298h, 304h and 311h. £4,000-5,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 73 † ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. al-Muqtadir, Gold Dinar, Antakiya 305h, 3.83g (Bernardi 242 Ga, 1 ref). Extremely fine and extremely rare. Bernardi records Dinars struck at the mint of Antakiya in the years 301h, 304h, 305h, 306h, and 308h. £12,000-15,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 74 ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. al-Muqtadir, Gold Dinar, al-Masisa 305h, 3.11g (Bernardi 242 Fd, but unrecorded date). Good very fine and extremely rare. al-Masisa was located south of the Taurus Mountains on the frontier between the Byzantine Empire and the Abbasid Caliphate.Bernardi records Dinars from this mint dated 296h and 29...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 75 † ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. al-Muqtadir, Gold Dinar, Tabariya 308h, 4.40g (Bernardi does not record a Dinar from this mint for al-Muqtadir). Extremely fine and extremely rare. Tabariya/Tiberius, on the shores of the Sea of Galilee in Palestine, was a provincial capital under the Umayyads and later a mint town used by the Abbas...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 76 ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. al-Muqtadir, Gold Dinar, Isbahan 309h, 3.05g (Bernardi does not record this date for this mint). Good very fine and very rare. Isbahan (Isfahan) is an extremely rare Abbasid gold mint.Bernardi recorded a single example for al-Muqtadir dated 298h. £10,000-12,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 77 ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. al-Muqtadir , Gold Dinar, Nisibin 311h, 4.49g (Bernardi does not record this date for this mint). About extremely fine and very rare. Bernardi recorded a single example of a Dinar struck in Nisibin (Nusaybin) for al-Muqtadir dated 313h. £6,000-8,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 78 † ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. al-Muqtadir, Gold Dinar, Barda’a 315 h, 3.92g (Bernardi 242 Kf, 4 refs). A little edge weakness, otherwise good very fine and very rare. Barda’a was at this time the principal town of Azerbaijan.Bernardi records four examples dated 315h, four of 318h and six of 319h. The other coins from Azerbaijan ...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 79 ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. al-Muqtadir , Gold Dinar, ‘Aththar 317h, 2.56g (Bernardi does not record this date for this mint). Very fine and very rare. ‘Aththar was a port in the Asir region of today’s Saudi Arabia.It was often under the rule of Sunni emirs who displayed their allegiance to the Abbasid caliphate in their coinage...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 80 † ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. al-Muqtadir, Gold Dinar, ‘Aththar 319h, 2.76g (Bernardi 249 Eo, 1 ref). Extremely fine and very rare. £10,000-12,000
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 81 † ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. Amirs of the Asir in the name al-Muti’ lillah (334-363h), Gold Dinar, Baysh 339h, 2.72g (Album Sylloge of Islamic Coins in the Ashmolean 10, no.18, 1 example of this date) Good very fine and rar e. The pale gold for this coinage was probably alluvial in origin, washed down from the mountains of th...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 82 † ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. Amirs of ‘Aththar in the name of al-Ta‘i’ lillah (363-381h), Gold Dinar, ‘Aththar 371h, 2.79g. Good very fine and extremely rare. This appears to be an unrecorded Dinar omitting the name of a local amir and giving that of only the Caliph al-Ta‘i’.It may have been struck during a local interregnum. £...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 83 ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. Abbasid, al-Mustazhir (487-512h), Gold Dinar, Madinat al-Salam 493h, 2.14g (Jafar Saljuq Baghdad A M.S. 493). Extremely fine and very rare This is a purely Abbasid coin struck during the period when the caliphs had to recognise the temporal overlordship of the Great Saljuq sultans.In the year 493h, du...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 84 † ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. al-Musta’sim (640-656h), Gold Dinar, Madinat al-Salam 656h, 8.37g. Unevenly struck but with a clear date, extremely fine and extremely rare This is a very rare example of the last Abbasid coinage struck in Madinat al-Salam. As the Mongol army made its way through Iran and advanced on Baghdad Abbasid...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 85 ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid Silver. temp. al-Saffah (132-137h), Silver Dirham, Dimashq 132h, 2.83g (Klat 376b; Lowick Abbasid 587). Cleaned, extremely fine and very rare This is an example of the first Abbasid coinage struck in Damascus. ‘Abd Allah bin ‘Ali al-Sajad, who was the uncle of both al-Saffah and his brother and successor, al-Mansur, had co...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 86 † ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid Silver. Abbasid Silver Dirhams (6), al-Yamama, temp. al-Mahdi, 165h, 2.90g (Lowick 571), 166h, 2.96g (Lowick 573), 167h, 2.85g (Lowick 578h), 168h, 2.54g (Lowick 579; temp. al-Mahdi/al-Hadi, 169h, 2.52g (Lowick 169h); temp. al-Hadi, 170h, 2.81g (Lowick 586). Very fine or better. (6) The earliest mint place to be estab...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 87 † ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid Silver. al-Radi (322-329h), Silver Medallion Dirham, Madinat al-Salam 325h, 14.45g. Extremely fine and very rare. This magnificent coin is unusual in several respects.It mixes legends normally found on the reverse with the abbreviated kalima usually found on the obverse, and includes a beautiful floral device.This was pr...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 88 † ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. al-Wathiq (227-232h), Gold Dinar, Makka 227h, 3.76g (unrecorded by either Bernardi or Album, the earliest dinar from this mint). Crudely struck with edge crack, otherwise good fine and extremely rare . Gold and Silver coins struck in the holy city of Makka. T he earliest known Islamic coin from the mint of Makka was ...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 89 ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. al-Mutawakkil (232-247h), Gold Dinar, Makka 234h, 4.12g (Bernardi 155 Ef, 2 refs). Very fine and very rare. Gold and Silver coins struck in the holy city of Makka. T he earliest known Islamic coin from the mint of Makka was struck in 201h, during the reign of al-Ma’mun bearing the name of his vizier al-Fadl bin Sahl Dhu’...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 90 † ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. al-Mutawakkil, Silver Dirham Error, Makka 268 (for 238h), error in writing decade of date, 5.12g, an exceptionally heavy Dirham for this mint (unrecorded date for mint). Good very fine and extremely rare . Gold and Silver coins struck in the holy city of Makka. T he earliest known Islamic coin from the mint of Makka ...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 91 † ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. al-Musta’in (248-251h), Gold Dinar, Makka 248h, 3.99g (Bernardi 160 Ef, 2 refs). Extremely fine and very rare. Gold and Silver coins struck in the holy city of Makka. T he earliest known Islamic coin from the mint of Makka was struck in 201h, during the reign of al-Ma’mun bearing the name of his vizier al-Fadl bin Sahl...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 92 † ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. al-Musta’in, Gold Dinar, Makka 249h, 4.14g (Bernardi 161 Ef, 1 ref). Weakly struck, very fine and very rare. Gold and Silver coins struck in the holy city of Makka. T he earliest known Islamic coin from the mint of Makka was struck in 201h, during the reign of al-Ma’mun bearing the name of his vizier al-Fadl bin Sahl D...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 93 † ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. al-Mu’tazz (252-255h), Gold Dinar, Makka 252h, 4.11g, the gold for the famous Dinar of the caliph al-Mu‘tazz dated 252h, which so eloquently symbolises the importance of this sacred spot, came from the covering of the Makam Ibrahim .(Bernardi 162 Ef, 2 refs). Very fine and extremely rare. Gold and Silver coins struck...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 94 ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. al-Mu’tazz, Silver Dirham, Makka 252h, legends as on the Dinar above, save for the denomination Dirham rather than Dinar, 2.98g (unrecorded date for mint). Very fine and extremely rare. Gold and Silver coins struck in the holy city of Makka . T he earliest known Islamic coin from the mint of Makka was struck in 201h, dur...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 95 † ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. al-Mu’tadid (279-289h), Gold Dinar, Makka 282h, 3.99g (Bernardi 211 Ef, 1 ref). Extremely fine and very rare. Gold and Silver coins struck in the holy city of Makka . T he earliest known Islamic coin from the mint of Makka was struck in 201h, during the reign of al-Ma’mun bearing the name of his vizier al-Fadl bin Sahl...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 96 † ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. al-Mu’tadid, Gold Dinar, Makka 283h, 4.12g (Bernardi 211 Ef, 1 ref). Good extremely fine and very rare. Gold and Silver coins struck in the holy city of Makka T he earliest known Islamic coin from the mint of Makka was struck in 201h, during the reign of al-Ma’mun bearing the name of his vizier al-Fadl bin Sahl Dhu’l-R...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 97 † ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. al-Muktafi (289-295h), Gold Dinar, Makka 291h, 3.86g (Bernardi 216 Ef, 1 ref). About extremely fine and very rare. Gold and Silver coins struck in the holy city of Makka T he earliest known Islamic coin from the mint of Makka was struck in 201h, during the reign of al-Ma’mun bearing the name of his vizier al-Fadl bin S...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 98 ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. al-Muktafi, Gold Dinar, Makka 292h, 2.59g (Bernardi 226 Ef, 3 refs). Good very fine and very rare. Gold and Silver coins struck in the holy city of Makka T he earliest known Islamic coin from the mint of Makka was struck in 201h, during the reign of al-Ma’mun bearing the name of his vizier al-Fadl bin Sahl Dhu’l-Riyasata...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 99 † ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. al-Muktafi, Silver Dirham, Makka 292h, 2.59g. Good very fine and rare. Gold and Silver coins struck in the holy city of Makka T he earliest known Islamic coin from the mint of Makka was struck in 201h, during the reign of al-Ma’mun bearing the name of his vizier al-Fadl bin Sahl Dhu’l-Riyasatayn.A second Dirham is know...
Date 25.04.2012
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Baldwin's Auctions, Islamic Coin Auction 19, Lot 100 † ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. al-Muktafi, Silver Dirham, Makka 294h, 2.88g. Good very fine. Gold and Silver coins struck in the holy city of Makka T he earliest known Islamic coin from the mint of Makka was struck in 201h, during the reign of al-Ma’mun bearing the name of his vizier al-Fadl bin Sahl Dhu’l-Riyasatayn.A second Dirham is known from th...
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