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Lot 1
ARAB-LATIN COINAGE, TEMP. AL-WALID I (86-96h), Gold Solidus, struck in North Africa, Indiction theta (=92/3h). OBVERSE: In margin and across field: n alivs est ds nis vn cvivs ne – simils, for ‘Non alius est Deus nisi Unus cuius (!) non est similis’. REVERSE: In margin and across field: i n dni msr msam frt in afri – indc ?, for ‘In nomine Domini misericordis feritus in Africa indictione theta’. WEIGHT: 4.10g. REFERENCES: Walker C.12; Bernardi 17. CONDITION: Good very fine with legends clearly engraved on the dies, rare
Lot 100
ABBASID, AL-RADI (322-329h), Dinar, Ardabil 327h. OBVERSE: In field: ornament above, letter ha below. REVERSE: In field: pellet by lillah, ornament below. WEIGHT: 4.47g. REFERENCE: Bernardi 285Ka RRR, this coin cited. CONDITION: Some marginal weakness, good fine and very rare. PROVENANCE: Ex Baldwin’s Islamic Coin Auction 10, 20 July 2005, lot 135
Lot 11
ARAB-ARMENIAN, TEMP. MUHAMMAD B. MARWAN, Drachm, without mint-name (probably struck in Dabil), date blundered (probably struck circa 73-75h). OBVERSE: Bust of Khusraw II right with his name in Pahlawi before; in second quadrant of margin: jaiz hadha. REVERSE: To right and left of fire-altar: vestigial Pahlawi mint-signature and date respectively (i.e. transposed from their usual positions. WEIGHT: 2.40g. REFERENCES: Sears 6-8; Album G97 RRR. CONDITION: Small edge nick, some staining and corrosion, good fine and extremely rare
Lot 111
TULUNID, KHUMARAWAYH B. AHMAD (270-282h), Dinar, Tarsus 278h. OBVERSE: In field: la ilaha illa | Allah wahdahu | la sharik lahu | al-Mufawwad illa-’llah. REVERSE: In field: lillah | Muhammad | rasul | Allah | al-Mu‘tamid ‘ala-’llah | Khumarawayh bin Ahmad. WEIGHT: 4.20g. REFERENCE: Bernardi type 193 (unrecorded for this mint). CONDITION: Good very fine and extremely rare, apparently unpublished. NOTE: This appears to be the first published Tulunid dinar from the very rare mint of Tarsus, as well as being the earliest recorded gold issue of any dynasty to have been struck there.
Lot 112
TULUNID, HARUN B. KHUMARAWAYH (283-292h), Dinar, Filastin 289h. REVERSE: In field: lillah | Muhammad | rasul | Allah | al-Mu‘tadid billah | Harun bin Khumarawayh. WEIGHT: 3.87g. REFERENCES: Bernardi 215Gn (citing a single example); Grabar –. CONDITION: Good very fine, a slightly soft striking, extremely rare. NOTE: Dinars of this mint and date are also known for the caliph al-Muktafi (see Bernardi 230Gn).
Lot 113
QARMATID, ALPTEKIN ABU MANSUR AL-MU‘IZZI (fl. 364-367h), Dinar, Filastin 366h. OBVERSE: In field: la ilaha illa Allah | wahdahu la sharik lahu | al-Ta‘i lillah | al-sayyid al-ra’is. REVERSE: In field: lillah | Muhammad rasul Allah | sali Allah ‘alayhi |al-sayyid Ja‘far bin al-Fadl | Abu Mansur al-Mu‘izzi. WEIGHT: 4.18g. REFERENCES: Vardanyan 27; Centuries of Gold 154, same dies. CONDITION: Pierced and with edge clip, otherwise very fine and very rare. NOTE: Vardanyan’s study gives a clear account of the career of Alptekin Abu Mansur al-Mu‘izzi, whose name appears on both the Qarmatid coins offered in this sale (see also lot 114). He had been a commander in the Turkish guard at the Buwayhid court but became involved in a failed coup against the Buwayhid ruler ‘Izz al-Dawla and subsequently fled to Syria. By 364h he was in control of Damascus, where he met and joined forces with the Qarmatids, and their combined forces took Tabariya in the following year. Lot 113 shows that by 366h Alptekin acknowledged the Qarmatid Council and also Ja‘far b. al-Fadl as its leader, but following further changes within the Council’s make-up later in 366h Ja‘far was no longer named directly on the coinage. The unpublished dirham described below (lot 114), where Alptekin’s name appears without that of a Qarmatid overlord, perhaps reflects the confused hierarchy within the Qarmatid state. Alptekin was finally defeated by a Fatimid army in 368h and taken to Egypt, where he was poisoned.
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Lot 119
FATIMID, AL-MU‘IZZ (341-365h), Half dirham, Madinat Barqa 347h. WEIGHT: 1.39g. REFERENCE: cf Nicol 265 [dated 348h]. CONDITION: Holed and with flan split, otherwise almost very fine and extremely rare, apparently unpublished. NOTE: This appears to be the earliest known Fatimid dirham from the extremely rare mint of Barqa, the classical mint of Barce in Cyrenaica.
Lot 123
FATIMID, AL-HAKIM (386-411h), Dinar, al-Mahdiya 387h. OBVERSE: In margin: Qur‘an 6:115 (outer); mint/date formula (inner). REVERSE: In margin: Qur‘an 4:54 (outer); Qur‘an 9:33 (inner). WEIGHT: 4.18g. REFERENCES: Nicol 1208 = Qatar II: 2496 (same dies). CONDITION: Minor edge marks, very fine or better and very rare. NOTE: This one-year type is only known for gold and silver issues from al-Mahdiya in this year. The additional verses from the Qur‘an translate as ‘The laws of your Lord are perfect in truth and justice and his laws cannot be changed; he is all-seeing and all knowing’ (6:115) and ‘Are they so jealous of others for what God in His generosity has given to them? So We had given the Book and the Law to Abraham’s family, and given them great power’ (4:54)
![FATIMID, AL-MUSTANSIR (427-487h), Dinar, Dimashq 433h. WEIGHT: 3.23g. REFERENCE: cf Nicol 1723 [435h]. CONDITION: Edge sha](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/6c889429-a922-4953-8611-a465010b7a01/9cc65790-9aa7-46c2-d410-6f3147aa8c4a/468x382.jpg)
Lot 126
FATIMID, AL-MUSTANSIR (427-487h), Dinar, Dimashq 433h. WEIGHT: 3.23g. REFERENCE: cf Nicol 1723 [435h]. CONDITION: Edge shaved, reverse double-struck, very fine or better and excessively rare, apparently unpublished. NOTE: Nicol lists no dinars from Damascus for the years between 429h and 435h.
Lot 130
FATIMID, AL-MUSTANSIR (427-487h), REVOLT OF AL-BASASIRI (450-451h), Dinar, Madinat al-Salam 451h. OBVERSE: letter ‘ayn in inner border at 12 o’clock. WEIGHT: 4.13g. REFERENCES: Nicol 2095; Jafar F.MS.451E. CONDITION: Plugged, about fine and very rare. NOTE: Arslan al-Basasiri was a Turkish general who served the Buwayhids in Baghdad until their overthrow by the Seljuqs in 447h. Fearing the new Seljuq regime, Basasiri offered his services to the Fatimids who promised him military and financial aid to stage a coup in the Abbasid capital. His chance came in 450h when the Seljuq Sultan, Tughril Beg, was away from Baghdad, leaving al-Basasiri able to occupy the city with only a small force. Al-Basasiri duly had the Fatimid al-Mustansir acknowledged in the Friday prayers, and also compelled the Abbasid caliph to sign a document acknowledging that the Fatimids should be the rightful caliphs as long as their line endured. Al-Basasiri held Baghdad for the Fatimids for almost exactly a year, before the return of Tughril Beg and his army in 451h brought the city firmly back under Seljuq control.
Lot 132
FATIMID, AL-MUNTAZAR (524-526h), Dinar, Misr 525h. OBVERSE: Outer margin: mint and date; Inner margin: Abu’l-Qasim al-Muntazar bi-amr Allah Amir al-Mu’minin; Incentre: al-Imam | Muhammad. REVERSE: Outer margin: Qur‘an ix, 33; Inner margin: la ilaha illa Allah Muhammad rasul Allah ‘Ali wali Allah; Incentre: ‘Al | ghaya. WEIGHT: 4.19g. REFERENCE: Nicol 2590. CONDITION: Small test-cut on edge, fine and very rare
Lot 138
‡ BATINITE RULERS OF ALAMUT, MUHAMMAD B. BUZURGUMID (532-557h), Fractional dinar, Kursi al-Daylam 536h. OBVERSE: In field: la ilaha | illa Allah | Muhammad | rasul Allah; Infield, to right and left: Muhammad bin – Buzurkumid. REVERSE: In field: ‘Ali wali Allah | al-Mustafa | li-din Allah | Nizar. WEIGHT: 2.34g. REFERENCE: Hamdan and Vardanyan 2. CONDITION: Very fine and well struck for issue, very rare thus
Lot 140
BATINITE RULERS OF ALAMUT, TEMP. AL-HASAN (557-561h), Fractional dinar, Kursi al-Daylam 561h. OBVERSE: In field: la ilaha | illa Allah | Muhammad | rasul Allah. REVERSE: In field: ‘Ali wali Allah | al-Mustafa | li-din Allah | Nizar. WEIGHT: 0.94g. REFERENCE: cf Hamdan and Vardanyan 18 [dated 560h]. CONDITION: Some weak areas but generally very fine and extremely rare
Lot 141
BATINITE RULERS OF ALAMUT, ‘ALA AL-DIN MUHAMMAD III (618-653h), Dirham, Baldat Iqbal 619h. REVERSE: In field: Muhammad | al-sultan al-‘azam | ‘Ala al-dunya wa’l-din | bin al-Hasan. WEIGHT: 3.36g. REFERENCES: Hamdan and Vardanyan 37, same dies; Album 1921 RRR. CONDITION: Metal fault on obverse which is also struck off-centre, otherwise almost very fine and toned, rare. NOTE: The mint-name on this coin is clearly Baldat Iqbal, without the definite article.
Lot 143
RASSID, AL-MANSUR AL-QASIM AL-AYYANI (389-393h), Dinar, San‘a 389h. OBVERSE: In field: la ilaha illa | Allah wahdahu | la sharik lahu | Muhammad rasul Allah. REVERSE: In field: lillah | al-Mansur billah | amir al-mu’- | minin al-Qasim | bin rasul Allah. WEIGHT: 1.99g. REFERENCE: Album 1069M RRR. CONDITION: Very fine to good very fine and extremely rare
Lot 144
TARAFID AMIRS OF ‘ATHAR, AL-FARAJ AL-TARAFI (fl. 381-392h), Dinar, ‘Athar ‘9’ (for 389h or 390h). OBVERSE: In field: la ilaha illa Allah | Muhammad rasul Allah | al-Ta‘i lillah. REVERSE: In field: amr bihi al-amir | al-Faraj | al-Tarafi | letter ha. WEIGHT: 2.78g. REFERENCES: SICA 10: -; Album F1070 RRR. CONDITION: Toned, very fine to good very fine and extremely rare. NOTE: It is not uncommon for the dates on Yemeni coins of this period to be truncated – it seems the die engraver simply ran out of space. The dates of al-Faraj al-Tarafi mean that this piece can be securely dated to 389h or 390h.
Lot 147
ZANGID OF MAWSIL, MAS’UD I (576-589h), Dinar, Tikrit 577h. REVERSE: In field, beginning to the left of centre: Mas‘ud bin – Mawdud – ‘Izz al-din. WEIGHT: 5.21g. REFERENCE: Album 1862. CONDITION: Pierced, very fine and extremely rare, apparently unpublished. NOTE: Album states that dinars of Mas‘ud I and his successors are known only from the mint of al-Mawsil.
Lot 148
SELJUQ OF RUM, KAYQUBADH I (616-634h), Dinar, Siwas 631h. OBVERSE: In field: al-Imam | al-Mustansir | billah; Inmargin: amir al-mu’minin duriba hadha al-dinar bi-Siwas. REVERSE: In field: al-Sultan | al-mu‘azzam | ‘Ala al-dunya; Inmargin: wa’l-din al-Fath (sic) Kayqubad bin Kaykhusraw sanat ahad wa thamanin wa sitt mi’at. WEIGHT: 4.38g. REFERENCES: Broome 199 = Hennequin 1715, same rev. die; Album A1211.1 RRR. CONDITION: Traces of mounting on edge, very fine and extremely rare
Lot 150
OTTOMAN, SULAYMAN I (926-974h), Sultani, Khudayda (?) 937h. WEIGHT: 3.52g. REFERENCES: Pere 174, same dies; Album A1118; cf Zeno 9117. CONDITION: Minor edge marks, otherwise good very fine and extremely rare. NOTE: Khudayda (modern Arabic al-Hudayda) was a port city on the west coast of Yemen. This coin is struck from the same dies as the piece which Pere attributed to Khudayda, and is stylistically very similar to the example illustrated on Zeno. The date is, unfortunately, ambiguous; comparison with the Zeno specimen suggests that the first digit is an open-topped ‘9’ and the second a ‘3’ rather than an elongated ‘2’, but the unit of the date is difficult to read. Close inspection shows that it is not simply a ‘1’ but that there is another line extending to the right, almost parallel with the rim of the coin to make a ‘7’. Diler (p. 519) listed several Ottoman coins which have been assigned to this mint, which he discussed in some detail. He evidently believed the mint-name to be spurious and based on a number of misreadings. In some cases, he was surely right – he noted that it is impossible for Ottoman coins to have been issued at Khudayda before 932h for historical reasons, and so the coins of Selim I (918-926h) assigned to Khudayda must certainly be misattributed. But it is less easy to dismiss sultanis of Khudayda in this way, given that the Zeno specimen appears to be dated 936h, while the year on the present coin seems best read as 937h. Moreover, Diler’s further observation that coins attributed to Khudayda seem not to have a Yemeni provenance is to some extent irrelevant, especially where ‘Khudayda’ can be shown on historical grounds to be a misreading. In these cases the coin in question had no connection with the Yemen in the first place and one would hardly expect it to be found there. Khudayda is in any case a port town, so it would hardly be surprising if any gold coins in particular struck there may have travelled overseas. The main Ottoman Yemeni mint at this time was located at Zabid, where sultanis were struck in various years between 932h and 962h. All carry the actual year of issue rather than the Sultan’s accessional year, a feature which they share with the present coin and the Zeno specimen. This is in contrast with sultanis from the mint of Jazira, a mint-name which Diler correctly notes would be written with similar letter-forms to Khudayda; these appear to be known dated 926h only. Diler also points out that the mint-name could be read as ‘Jadida’, and claims that ‘there were at least 7 localities called al-Jedeide in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, which would have been written like al-Khudayda but with a diacritical point under the first letter.’ But the only one of these which Diler himself records as a mint is not recorded as having issued Ottoman coins, and seems only to have been active under the Golden Horde (Diler p. 428). So a hypothetical ‘Jadida’ or ‘Jedeide’ would equally be an unpublished mint and, as Diler himself notes ‘…it is very easy to attribute a coin to a locality but extremely difficult to disprove it.’
Lot 154
OTTOMAN, ‘ABD AL-HAMID II (1293-1327h), Large gold medal for the Earthquake of July 10, 1894. OBVERSE: Toughra within crescent; Hamiyet ve ebnaya cinsine muavenet below. REVERSE: Laurel-wreath with date sanat 1312 below, in the centre of which is engraved banq ‘Uthmani mu’awini (‘Osmanli bankasi Muavinine / Vice President of the Ottoman Bank’). WEIGHT: 34.06g. DIAMETER: 34.9mm. REFERENCES: Erüreten p.269. CONDITION: Minor contact marks, almost extremely fine and extremely rare, in original red fitted case with seal affixed to the base reading ‘Imperial Ottoman bank Cairo’. NOTE: On 10 July 1894 Turkey was hit by a powerful earthquake with its epicentre in the Sea of Marmara. More than a thousand people were killed, including 276 in Istanbul itself where the quake also caused extensive damage to the old city. Medals in gold, silver and bronze were presented to people who gave assistance in the aftermath of the earthquake, either in the form of financial aid or by helping personally. The present piece is an extremely rare example of the large-sized gold award.
Lot 156
SAJID, YUSUF B. DIWDAD (288-315h), Dinar, Arminiya 303h. OBVERSE: In field: la ilaha illa | Allah wahdahu | la sharik lahu. REVERSE: In field: lillah | Muhammad | rasul Allah | al-Muqtadir billah | Yusuf b. Diwdad | annulet. WEIGHT: 4.01g. REFERENCE: Bernardi 251Kb (citing a single example). CONDITION: Very fine to good very fine, very rare
Lot 157
SAJID, YUSUF B. DIWDAD (288-315h), Dinar, Ardabil 311h. OBVERSE: In field: la ilaha illa | Allah wahdahu | la sharik lahu | Abu’l-‘Abbas b. | Amir al-Mu’minin. REVERSE: In field: lillah | Muhammad | rasul Allah | al-Muqtadir billah | al-wazir Abu’l-Hasan | Yusuf b. Diwdad | crescent. WEIGHT: 4.64g. REFERENCE: Bernardi 252Ka, this piece cited. CONDITION: Wavy flan, very fine and rare. PROVENANCE: Ex Sotheby’s auction, 9 April 1992, lot 352.
Lot 158
KURDISH RULERS OF ADHARBAYJAN, DAYSAM B. IBRAHIM (326-341h), Dinar, al-Maragha 326h. OBVERSE: In field: crescent above, two pellets below. REVERSE: In field: lillah | Muhammad | rasul Allah | al-Radi billah | Daysam bin Ibrahim | two pellets. WEIGHT: 3.44g. REFERENCES: Bernardi 296Ke (date not listed, known only from 328h); Vardanyan -. CONDITION: Slightly wavy flan, very fine to good very fine and extremely rare. NOTE: Apparently the earliest known issue from al-Maragha to bear Daysam b. Ibrahim’s name.
Lot 159
‡ KURDISH RULERS OF ADHARBAYJAN, DAYSAM B. IBRAHIM (326-341h), Dinar, al-Maragha 328h. REVERSE: In field: lillah | Muhammad | rasul Allah | al-Radi billah | Daysam bin Ibrahim. WEIGHT: 4.33g. REFERENCES: Bernardi 296Ke; Vardanyan 9, same obverse die. CONDITION: Obverse slightly off-centre, very fine and rare
Lot 160
KURDISH RULERS OF ADHARBAYJAN, DAYSAM B. IBRAHIM (326-341h), Dinar, Adharbayjan 340h. REVERSE: In field: lillah | Muhammad | rasul Allah | al-Muti‘ lillah | Daysam bin Ibrahim . WEIGHT: 4.00g. REFERENCE: cf Vardanyan 16 = Centuries of Gold 156 [dated 341h]. CONDITION: Mount removed, fine and extremely rare. NOTE: Apparently an unpublished date for the mint. Vardanyan only records silver dirhams of Daysam b. Ibrahim for this year, struck solely at Ardabil.
Lot 162
‡ SAMANID, NASR B. AHMAD (301-331h) and AHMAD B. SAHL (302-307h), Dinar, Balkh 302h. OBVERSE: In field: la ilaha illa | Allah wahdahu | la sharik lahu | Ahmad. REVERSE: In field: lillah | Muhammad | rasul Allah | al-Muqtadir billah | Nasr b. Ahmad | letter sin. WEIGHT: 4.10g. REFERENCE: Bernardi 270Qd. CONDITION: Wavy flan, good very fine and rare
Lot 163
‡ SAMANID, NUH B. NASR (331-343h), Dinar, Qumm 333h. OBVERSE: In field: star | Muhammad rasul Allah | al-Mustakfi billah | Nuh b. Nasr | two annulets. REVERSE: In field: Qur‘an 112 (without incipit), in three lines. WEIGHT: 3.59g. REFERENCE: Bernardi type 349 (this mint not recorded). CONDITION: Some deposit, good fine and extremely rare, apparently unpublished. NOTE: This unusual Samanid type with the Sura al-Ikhlas on the reverse is known from several mints, mostly dated 333h. The present coin appears to be the first of this type known from the rare Samanid mint of Qumm.
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