Coins Medals & Banknotes

*Arab-Sasanian, Khusraw II type, drachm, AYR (unidentified mint) 37ye, 3.46g (Gaube 5), clipped, only fine but very rare ...[more]

Arab-Sasanian, Khusraw II type, drachm, BYŠ (Bishapur) 49h, 3.83g (SICA 1, 128ff); ‘Ubayd Allah b. Ziyad (55-64h), drachm, DA (Darabjird) 50ye, 3....

*Arab-Sasanian, Khusraw II type, drachm, DA (Darabjird) YE30, with lillah in margin, 4.08g (SICA 232ff), light graffiti in reverse margin and smal...

Arab-Sasanian, ‘Abdallah b. ‘Amir, drachms (2), BYŠ (Bishapur) 47h and DA (Darabjird) 43h, 2.71g, 2.63g (SICA I, 114, 238), both clipped, good fin...

*Arab-Sasanian, Mu‘awiya, drachm, DA (Darabjird) 43YE, 3.52g (SICA I, 245-6), lightly clipped, very fine and scarce This is the earliest Islamic c...

*Arab-Sasanian, Ziyad b. Abi Sufyan (45-55h), drachm, GD (Jayy) 52h, 2.85g (Walker p.44, I.18 var.), two Hephthalite countermarks in obverse margi...

*Arab-Sasanian, Ziyad b. Abi Sufyan (45-55h), drachm, NY (Nihavand) 54h, 2.89g (Walker -; SICA -), slightly clipped, very fine and rare ...[more]

Arab-Sasanian, Ziyad b. Abi Sufyan, drachm, DA (Darabjird) 43YE, 4.04g (SICA I, 239-240), harshly cleaned, very fine; Khusraw II type with bismill...

*Arab-Sasanian, ‘Ubayd Allah b. Ziyad (55-64h), drachm, ST (Istakhr) 61h, 2.80g (Walker 107), two countermarks in obverse margin, clipped, about v...

*Arab-Sasanian, ‘Ubayd Allah b. Ziyad (55-64h), drachm, SYWN (unidentified mint) 60h, 2.64g (Walker p.72, B.21), clipped, surface crack across rev...

*Arab-Sasanian, ‘Abd Allah b. al-Zubayr (60-73h), drachm, ST (Istakhr) 66h, 3.01g (SICA 1, 376), clipped, minor deposit, otherwise very fine ......

Arab-Sasanian, ‘Abdallah b. al-Zubayr, drachms (2), DA (Darabjird) YE56 and KRMAN (Kirman) 67h, with Pahlawi BPRWY in margin, 3.50, 3.03g (SICA I,...

*Arab-Sasanian, ‘Abd al-Malik b. ‘Abd Allah (66-67h), drachm, BYŠ (Bishapur) 67h, 3.99g (SICA 1, 155), minor tooling on reverse, otherwise good ve...

*Arab-Sasanian, ‘Umar b. ‘Ubaydallah, drachm, BCRA (al-Basra) 65h, 3.15g (Album p.25, note 41 = Morton and Eden auction 17, 13 December 2005, lot ...

*Arab-Sasanian, Qatari b. al-Fuja’a (c.69-79h), drachm, TART (Tawwaj) 75h 3.63g (Gaube 70), harshly cleaned, otherwise very fine, rare ...[more]

*Arab-Sasanian, Muqatil b. Misma’ (c.72-73h), drachm, BYŠ (Bishapur) 73h, 2.93g (SICA 1, 190), slightly clipped, small edge cut, scraped on high p...

*Arab-Sasanian, Khalid b. ‘Abd Allah (c.73-75h), drachm, BYŠ (Bishapur) 73h, 4.02g (SICA 1, 191), small edge chip, otherwise good fine, scarce ....

*Arab-Sasanian, al-Hajjaj b. Yusuf (75-95h), drachm, BYŠ (Bishapur) 77h, with full shahada in obv. margin, 3.80g (SICA 1, 218-219), cleaned, about...

*Arab-Sasanian, al-Hajjaj b. Yusuf (75-95h), drachm, BYŠ (Bishapur) 78h, full shahada in obv. margin, 3.97g (SICA 1, 220-221), good fine, scarce ...

*Arab-Sasanian, al-Hajjaj b. Yusuf (75-95h), drachm, BYŠ (Bishapur) 79h, with only bismillah in margin 3.78g (Walker 237), cleaned, otherwise very...

*Arab-Sasanian, al-Hajjaj b. Yusuf, drachm, BYŠ (Bishapur) 80h, 3.68g (SICA I, 226), edge chip, some staining, good fine ...[more]

*Arab-Sasanian, ‘Ubayd Allah b. Abi Bakra (fl.79-80h), drachm, SK (Sijistan), blundered date, governor’s name in Arabic in obv. margin, 3.93g (SIC...

*Arab-Sasanian, Farroxzad, fals, Ardashir Khurra, undated, 1.17g (Gyselen 2), very fine, scarce ...[more]

*Arab-Byzantine, follis, Scythopolis (Baysan), obv. two seated figures, 4.80g (Walker 1ff; A 3509.1), obverse fine, reverse better, rare ...[mor...

*Arab-Byzantine, follis, Tabariya, obv. three standing figures, 5.08g (Walker 43ff; A 3512), fine, scarce ...[more]

*Umayyad, third-dinar, 96h, 1.43g (Walker 211), light graffiti, good very fine ...[more]

*Umayyad, dinar, 107h, rev., two pellets below i of dinar in margin, 4.38g including ring mount (Walker 227), with old loop-mount attached, fair t...

*Umayyad, dirham, Adharbayjan 105h, rev., triplet of pellets pointing upwards, 2.88g (Klat 24.a1), minor scrapes on reverse, about extremely fine ...

Umayyad, dirham, Adharbayjan 105h, similar to the last, 2.77g (Klat 24.a1), good fine ...[more]

*Umayyad, dirham, Arminiya 98h, 2.43g (Klat 52), lightly cleaned, very fine ...[more]

*Umayyad, dirham, Arminiya 100h, 2.84g (Klat 54), some staining, very fine ...[more]

*Umayyad, dirham, al-Andalus 110h, 2.80g (Klat 123), small edge chip, about very fine ...[more]

*Umayyad, dirham, al-Basra 79h, 2.61g (Klat 168), good very fine, scarce ...[more]

*Umayyad, dirham, Ramhurmuz 97h, 2.72g (Klat 390), very fine and rare ...[more]

*Umayyad, dirham, Sijistan 97h, 2.75g (Klat 439), very fine, scarce ...[more]

*Umayyad, dirham, Sijistan 129h, 2.50g (Klat 447), very fine, rare ...[more]

*Umayyad, dirham, Sarakhs 91h, rev., margin ends al-mushrikn, 2.34g (Klat 451.a, same obverse die, citing two specimens of this variety), good fin...

*Umayyad, dirham, al-Sus 94h, 2.84g (Klat 479), some double-striking on obverse, very fine ...[more]

*Umayyad, dirham, Qumis 92h, 2.87g (Klat 519), good very fine ...[more]

*Umayyad, dirham, Mah al-Basra 80h, 2.65g (Klat 551), some scratches, otherwise very fine, scarce ...[more]

*Umayyad, dirham, Madinat Balkh al-Bayda 111h, 2.62g (Klat 176), some scratches in margins, otherwise good fine and rare ...[more]

*Umayyad, dirham, Marw 80h, 2.55g (Klat 582.b), reverse slightly double-struck, about very fine, scarce ...[more]

*Umayyad, dirham, Marw 81h, 2.83g (Klat 583.a), minor deposit on obverse, good very fine ...[more]

*Umayyad, dirham, Wasit 84h, 2.60g (Klat 679), lightly cleaned, small edge crack, otherwise very fine ...[more]

Umayyad dirhams (11), comprising Istakhr 92h; al-Basra 81h; Balkh 115h; Dimashq 90h; Sabur 93h; Surraq 93h; al-Kufa 102h; al-Mubaraka 110h; Marw 9...

*Revolutionary Period, dirham, Jayy 129h, 2.89g (Klat 270.a), minor deposit, good very fine ...[more]

*Revolutionary Period, dirham, Ramhurmuz 128h, 2.91g (Klat 391), about extremely fine, scarce ...[more]

*Umayyad, fals, Adhra‘at, undated, two stars below obverse legend, 2.51g (SICA IVc, 236), about very fine, rare ...[more]

*Umayyad, fals, Iliya, undated, no inner circle on rev., 4.53g (SICA 2, 1120), fine, rare ...[more]

*Umayyad, fals, Iliya, undated, mintname in obv. central legend, 3.74g (Goussous 528-529), fine, rare ...[more]

*Umayyad, fals, mint (Baysan?) uncertain, undated, 3.24g, fine, rare ...[more]

*Umayyad, fals, Dabil, undated, 2.99g (Walker p.247), mint name weak, fine, rare ...[more]

*Umayyad, fals, Sarmin, undated, 3.61g (Goussous 436), fine, rare ...[more]

*Umayyad, fals, Filastin, undated, with palm-branch after mint-name, 2.87g (Walker 911), very fine or better for issue and scarce ...[more]

*Umayyad, fals, Tabariya, undated, 2.98g (SICA 2, 1227), irregular flan, fine and scarce ...[more]

*Umayyad, fals, al-Kufa 101h, 2.41g (Walker p.279, P.142), fine, rare ...[more]

*Umayyad, fals, Ludd, undated, 2.82g (SICA 2, 1249-1250), fine, rare ...[more]

*Umayyad, fals, Ma’arat Misrin, undated, 4.51g (Walker p.281, B.57), fine, rare ...[more]

Abbasid, temp. al-Rashid (170-193h), dinar, 188h, fields plain, and al-Mamun, dinar, 197h ‘Abbad, 3.90, 3.86g (Bernardi 51, 83), good fine to almo...

*Abbasid, al-Mu’tasim (218-227h), dinar, Madinat al-Salam 221h, 4.16g (Bernardi 151Jh), scratched in reverse field, otherwise very fine, rare .....