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Lot 363
Gold charm bracelet with numerous gold and yellow metal charms, including two George III gold Spade Guineas, two Half Guineas, Victorian gold £2 coin, Victorian gold Sovereign, Edward VII Sovereign and Half Sovereign, Russian Ten Rouble, American gold One Dollar and other charms CONDITION REPORT Total gross weight approximately 122 grams
Lot 1
ARAB-SASANIAN, AL-HAKAM B. ABI AL-‘ASDrachm, ANWAT (uncertain location, in Kirman) or HWNZYT (Hunzit) 57hOBVERSE: In margin: bismillah al-HakamWEIGHT: 2.98gREFERENCE: SCC 62CONDITION: Ragged edge and also clipped, good fine and rare NOTE: The mint-name on this rare coin has traditionally been read as ANWAT, and because this is also found as a suffix to the KRMAN mint-signature it has generally been taken to refer to an unknown location somewhere in Kirman province. More recently, however, Shams Eshragh suggested the alternative reading HWNZYT, ‘Hunzit’.
Lot 15
UMAYYAD, TEMP. YAZID II (101-105h)Dirham, al-Andalus 103hOBVERSE: In border: annulets o o o o oREVERSE: In border: annulets o o o o oWEIGHT: 3.01gREFERENCE: Klat 116, same reverse dieCONDITION: Some staining on obverse, otherwise almost extremely fine and extremely rare NOTE: This is an extremely rare example of the very first Islamic silver coin struck in Muslim Spain.
Lot 19
‡UMAYYAD, TEMP. ‘UMAR (99-101h)Dirham, Jurjan 100hOBVERSE: Standard type with five small annulets and three concentric circles in margin Marginal legend …duriba hadha al-dirham bi-Jurjan fi sanat… arranged in square around kalimaREVERSE: Standard type. Central point above and slightly to the left of final d of yuladu in third line of fieldWEIGHT: 2.86gCONDITION: Slight double-striking on obverse, about extremely fine and of the highest rarity NOTE: THE FIRST RECORDED UMAYYAD DIRHAM FROM THE MINT OF JURJAN The discovery of a new mint for the post-Reform Umayyad dirham coinage is now a rare event, which can yield important new evidence for our understanding of the numismatic history of the period. In this context the coin of Jurjan offered here is of particular interest. The province of Jurjan lay at the south-east corner of the Caspian sea. While previously unknown as a mint for Umayyad dirhams, Jurjan (also the name of the chief city of the province) was an active mint in the early centuries of Islam. Almost all coins struck before the mid-third century were copper fulus, but under the ‘Alids of Tabaristan, Samanids, Ziyarids and Buwayhids a fairly regular silver coinage was produced. Later the Ilkhanids struck coins in all three metals. In the year 100h dirham production was heavily centralised at Basra, Kufa and Dimashq. Klat records dirhams from just five other mints, mostly situated either on the frontiers of the Islamic lands or in areas geographically distant from the capital, Damascus. Either of these explanations could equally account for the opening of a dirham mint in Jurjan. It is also tempting to associate this piece with a parallel issue of post-Refom copper fulus introduced in Iran and the East circa 100h. Dated copper and lead fulus were struck in Jurjan fairly regularly from 101h (and possibly earlier, see Album 202); these will have been intended for local circulation while silver dirhams could and did circulate throughout the Islamic lands. Perhaps striking dirhams at Jurjan was an experiment which was quickly abandoned in favour of a base metal coinage designed to meet a local need. ‡ a 5% import tax if the lot is purchased from within the UK.
Lot 28
UMAYYAD, TEMP. ‘ABD AL-MALIK B. MARWAN (65-86h)Dirham, al-Sus 82hOBVERSE: In border: annulets o o o o oREVERSE: In border: annulets o o o o o In field: wa at beginning of third lineWEIGHT: 2.65gCONDITION: Some double-striking on obverse, fine to good fine and of the highest rarity NOTE: A previously unrecorded date for the mint of al-Sus, this coin confirms that dirhams were struck there in each year from 79-83h.
Lot 29
UMAYYAD, TEMP. ‘ABD AL-MALIK B. MARWAN (65-86h)Dirham, Kirman 79hOBVERSE: In border: annulets o o o o o In margin: bismillah duriba hadha l-dirham bi-Kirman fi sanat tisa‘ wa saba‘in (i.e. without the initial alif of al-dirham)REVERSE: In field: wa at end of second lineWEIGHT: 2.51gCONDITION: Centres weakly struck on both sides, crazed surfaces and several small flan splits at edge, fine overall with clear mint and date and of the highest rarity NOTE: This appears to be the earliest known dirham from the important post-Reform mint of Kirman, struck eleven years before the first date recorded by Klat (this being 90h, coin 522.1).
Lot 31
UMAYYAD, TEMP. HISHAM (105-125h)Dirham, al-Mubaraka 108hOBVERSE: Chain border; two concentric circles instead of threeREVERSE: Dotted border (instead of usual annulets)WEIGHT: 2.87gREFERENCE: Klat 571.a, citing a single specimen from the same pair of diesCONDITION: Good very fine and extremely rare, apparently the second published example NOTE: Virtually all Umayyad dirhams conform to a standard pattern with annulets in the margin on both sides: normally five on the obverse (but with increasing variation from about 103h onwards) and almost invariably five on the reverse. This distinctive chain border on the obverse and dotted border on the reverse are only found on coins of al-Mubaraka (‘the blessed place’, generally believed to be a title referring to the great city of Balkh) dated 107h and 108; they are otherwise unparalleled on the Umayyad silver coinage. PROVENANCE: Baldwin’s Islamic Coin Auction 10, 20 July 2005, lot 45 (also illustrated on front cover of catalogue)
Lot 36
UMAYYAD, TEMP. ‘ABD AL-MALIK B. MARWAN or AL-WALID IDirham, Wasit ‘73h’OBVERSE: In margin: decade of date written sin-‘ayn-ya-nun (sic, either for saba‘in or tisa’in)WEIGHT: 2.59gCONDITION: Good very fine and unusual NOTE: The calligraphy on the obverse is executed to a high standard, while the reverse, although still fully literate, is somewhat coarser in style. It seems that the coin is likely to be an unofficial issue of some kind, possibly from North Africa. It is curious that the only obvious spelling error should be in the date, particularly since this produces an ‘impossible’ reading for the type. Could this be a deliberate attempt to conceal when, and possibly by whom, the piece was produced? Umayyad dirhams with similar ‘impossible’ dates in the 70’s are also known from other mints, including an example of ‘Marw 74h’ sold in these rooms (Important Coins of the Islamic World, 23 April 2012, lot 61).
Lot 39
ARAB-BUKHARAN, TEMP. HARUN AL-RASHID, GOVERNOR ‘ALISilver Muhammadiya drachm, without mint or dateOBVERSE: Degraded Sasanian bust right Behind head: Muhammadiya (the term for the fine silver issue of this type) Beneath bust: Mimma amara bihi ‘Ali Before face: Sogdian legendREVERSE: Degraded fire-altar and attendantsWEIGHT: 2.10gREFERENCES: Album ‘96E’; Zeno 117759, this pieceCONDITION: Good very fine and of the highest rarity NOTE: This extremely rare coin belongs to a group which constitutes some of the very last Islamic coins to follow pre-Islamic prototypes. The design ultimately derives from a Sasanian drachm of Varhran V, issued in the early fifth century A.D., which was imitated on coins struck at Bukhara for centuries before the coming of Islam. These pre-Islamic rulers used the title Bukharkhudat. Much as in Sijistan, where the Islamic coinage of the 8th century Hijri alternated between regular, post-Reform Umayyad and Abbasid dirhams and debased Arab-Sasanian drachms, Bukhara also seems to have continued to strike Islamicized Bukharkhudat drachms alongside more conventional Islamic coins. In both cases the explanation seems to have been a combination of geographical remoteness and an unwillingness among the local population to accept the new coinage, with which they may well still have been unfamiliar. The governor cited on this coin has been identified as ‘Ali b. ‘Isa b. Mahan, governor of Khurasan under Harun al-Rashid until his dismissal in 192h.
Lot 55
ABBASID, AL-MUTTAQI (329-333h)Donative dinar, Madinat al-Salam 329hOBVERSE: In field, in fourth and fifth lines: Abu’l-Husayn Bajkam | mawla amir al-mu‘mininWEIGHT: 4.26gREFERENCE: cf Bernardi 309Jh (standard type without broad margins)CONDITION: Extremely fine and of the highest rarity, apparently unpublished as a donative NOTE: Apparently only the second recorded donative dinar for the caliph al-Muttaqi (the other being a coin of al-Basra 330h sold in these rooms, May 2005, lot 581)
Lot 26
A Collection of Silver Bijouterie; mainly Continental: A group of filigree toy furniture. A cup & saucer. Two miniature spoons with Indian two Annas piece coin bowls dated 1916 on twisted stems with bird finials. A tea strainer. An ornately pierced spoon. A pair of small round photograph frames. A table form pill box, and a Jewish ecclesiastical spice tower.
Lot 6
Roman Imperial, 3 x Silver Denarii: Trajan, rev. PM TR P COS IIII P P, Victory standing left holding wreath; Hadrian rev. FELICITAS AVG Felicitas standing left holding cornucopia & sceptre; Lucius Verus rev. PROV DEOR TR P II COS II Providentia standing left holding globe & cornucopia; all with very good portrait & reverse detail & full, clear legends both sides, all better than VF & Hadrian brass sestertius rev. PONT MA(X TR POT COS 111) S C, Felicitas standing left holding cornucopia, most of rev. legend not struck up Fine/VG together with 6 x low grade bronzes ( including Severus Alexander & a damaged Trajan sestertius etc) & an unidentified Byzantine bronze coin, corroded Poor
Lot 102
Miscellaneous Lot comprising: 6 x UK silver proofs: 2 x crowns 1981 & 1990, £2 1995 (piedfort) & 3 x £1 1991, 1992 & 1993, with certs, in CofI, FDC; Isle of Man Silver Jubilee set 1977, 6 coins ½p to 50p, all sterling silver proofs, in CofI, FDC, a silver proof crown 1980 `Winter Olympics` & a set of 3 x £1 (sterling silver proof, virenium proof & circulation coin) In CofI; Falkland Islands 2 x CuNi crowns 1983 in presentation packs; Turks & Caicos silver (.500) proof 5 crowns 1980 & loose album leaves containing halfcrowns, florins, shillings & sixpences of which £3.05 face value pre-47 silver
Lot 113
22 x Whitman Folders containing date runs (several incomplete) of farthings, halfpennies, pennies, silver threepences, brass threepences, sixpences, shillings, florins & halfcrowns, all from circulation & generally low grades (£6.40 total face value pre-47 silver, including some pre-20), together with 10 x year sets 1960-67 inclusive (2 x 1966 & 1967) in Sandhill cases, a £5 coin 1990, 140+ foreign coins, pre-decimal bronze & other coins
Lot 137
Miscellaneous Lot including: crown 1889 obv. scratches VG, £0.47½ face value pre-47 silver, a quantity of pre-decimal bronze (weight approximately 2kg), 14 x CuNi crowns including 1953 & 1960, a £5 coin 2006 in a presentation pack, foreign coins including India rupee 1916, half rupee 1918, quarter rupee 1914, 2 annas 1914, 1 anna 1916 & quarter anna 1918 generally AVF or+, Canada 16 x silver 5 cents: 1912, 1917(x3), 1918(x5), 1919(x7) generally AVF or+ except 1912 Fine, a nickel silver medal depicting `Broadlands` (home of Lord Mountbatten) in CofI BU & other coins & medalets
Lot 145
Miscellaneous Lot including: 2 x crowns: 1822 TERTIO, graffiti both sides, obv. digs o/wise GFine & 1819 LIX contact marks/scratches & staining Fair/VG, £0.50p face value pre-20 silver, 130 x silver threepences, a £5 coin 1997, 3 x £2 coins 1986 & 1995(x2), pre-decimal CuNi & old 10p & 5p coins
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