Islamic Auction 2
Date: 2022-10-27 00:00:00
Lots: 330
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Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 2 . 106
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (25.5mm, 2.64 g, 11h). Fil mint. Dated AH 81 (AD 700/1). Klat –; cf. Baldwin's Islamic Auction 17 (26 October 2010), lot 52. Cleaned. Good VF. Excessively rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 2 . 107
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (25.5mm, 2.75 g, 6h). Mah al-Kufa mint. Dated AH 81 (AD 700/1). Obverse margin: unit of date ends with alif. Cf. Klat 555 (unit of date ends with alif maqsura). Pin marks in obverse field. Near VF. Apparently an unpublished variety of this extremely rare issue.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 2 . 108
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.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 2 . 109
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (26.5mm, 2.65 g, 7h). Al-Madinat al-'Atiqa mint. Dated AH 97 (AD 715/6). Klat 579. Edge damage where a mount has been removed. Near VF. Extremely rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 2 . 110
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (27mm, 2.84 g, 6h). Marw mint. Dated AH 81 (AD 700/1). Obverse field: mint-name in Pahlawi in fourth line / Reverse: margin ends al-mushrikūn. Klat 583.b. Pierced. Good VF. Rare, only four specimens of this variety recorded by Klat.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 2 . 111
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (27mm, 2.73 g, 2h). Marw mint. Dated AH 84 (AD 703). Obverse: triplet of pellets to left of Pahlawi mint-name in fourth line of field; unit of date ends with 'ayn / Reverse: margin ends al-mushrikīn (sic). Klat 586.c var. (reverse margin ends al-mushrikūn). VF.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 2 . 112
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (24.5mm, 2.21 g, 9h). Manadhir mint. Dated AH 81 (AD 700/1). Klat 612. Traces of mounting. Fine. Rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 2 . 113
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (25mm, 2.75 g, 7h). Maysan mint. Dated AH 80 (AD 699/700). Klat 629. Near VF. Rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 2 . 114
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (25mm, 2.91 g, 12h). Nahr Tira mint. Dated AH 81 (AD 700/1). Klat 639. Toned. EF. Rare. Ex Morton & Eden 54 (23 April 2012), lot 66.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 2 . 115
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (26mm, 2.82 g, 2h). Nahr Buq mint. Dated AH 90 (AD 708/9). Klat 636 (same dies as illustration). Toned, pin marks in fields. VF. Excessively rare. Nahr Buq was the name of a district in Iraq, located to the east of the Tigris. The site of the future 'Abbasid capital of Baghdad was located at the conjunction of the four districts of Nahr Buq, Kalwadha, Baduraya and Qatrabal.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 2 . 116
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (24.5mm, 2.93 g, 7h). Harat mint. Dated AH 80 (AD 699/700). Obverse margin: pellet between hadha and al-dirham; eight plain annulets in outer border; Obverse field: Pahlawi HLA (the mint-signature for Harat) in fourth line / Reverse margin: six plain annulets in outer border. Klat –; Lloyd, S. "An unpublished Umayyad dirham of Harat dated 80h, with Pahlawi mint-name," ONS Newsletter 179 (Spring 2004), p. 32 (this coin). Near EF. Excessively rare. Ex Morton & Eden 9 (25 May 2004), lot 457.The first years of minting post-reform Umayyad dirhams at Harat seem to have been somewhat chaotic. Dirhams struck in the year AH 79 have standard legends and the normal five small annulets on the obverse, but we have examples on which the mint-name is variously misspelled as 'Ahbahr' (with the letters of the mint-name engraved in reverse order) and 'Hr' (with the final two letters omitted). Those coins on which the name is correctly engraved, however, inexplicably have seven annulets on the reverse, while 'Ahbahr' and 'Hr' have the normal five. Equally inexplicably, in AH 80 it was evidently decided to add the Pahlawi mint-signature below the obverse field, as was standard on dirhams struck at Marw and Marw al-Rudh between AH 79 and AH 84, while retaining the unusual extra annulets in the reverse border.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 2 . 117
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (24.5mm, 1.84 g, 1h). Harat mint. Dated AH 80 (AD 699/700). Obverse field: without Pahlawi mint-name below / Reverse: margin ends al-mushrikn. Klat –. Clipped. Fine. Of the highest rarity, apparently unpublished. The first years of minting post-reform Umayyad dirhams at Harat seem to have been somewhat chaotic. Dirhams struck in the year AH 79 have standard legends and the normal five small annulets on the obverse, but we have examples on which the mint-name is variously misspelled as 'Ahbahr' (with the letters of the mint-name engraved in reverse order) and 'Hr' (with the final two letters omitted). Those coins on which the name is correctly engraved, however, inexplicably have seven annulets on the reverse, while 'Ahbahr' and 'Hr' have the normal five. Equally inexplicably, in AH 80 it was evidently decided to add the Pahlawi mint-signature below the obverse field, as was standard on dirhams struck at Marw and Marw al-Rudh between AH 79 and AH 84, while retaining the unusual extra annulets in the reverse border.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 2 . 118
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (25.5mm, 1.87 g, 10h). 'Wasit' mint. Dated AH 93 (AD 711/2). Eight-pointed star above reverse field. Klat 688.b. Small edge split, some staining and corrosion. VF. Very rare. Umayyad dirhams bearing an eight-pointed star above the reverse field are generally believed to have been struck at an uncertain mint in North Africa, even though they the mint-name 'Wasit.' Klat records a single specimen of this variety.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 2 . 119
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (26mm, 2.76 g, 6h). 'Wasit' mint. Dated AH 95 (AD 713/4). Reverse field: eight-pointed star above, crescent below. Cf. Klat 690.b (without crescent on reverse). Fine. Very rare. Umayyad dirhams bearing an eight-pointed star above the reverse field are generally believed to have been struck at an uncertain mint in North Africa, even though they the mint-name 'Wasit.' Klat records a single specimen of this variety.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 2 . 120
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (23mm, 2.54 g, 11h). Revolutionary Period issue, struck by Muharib b. Musa. Istakhr mint. Dated AH 128 (AD 745/6). Obverse outer margin: bism ○ Allah ○ duriba ○ bi-Istakhr ○ sanat ○ thaman ○ wa 'ashrin ○ wa mi'at; no circle around obverse field. Klat 83.b; cf Wurtzel 12 (variety of mint/date legend). Toned, evenly clipped. Good Fine. Very rare. This type, which has a shortened version of the mint/date legend without the standard hadha al-dirham, is by far the rarer of the two varieties of dirham struck at Istakhr in this year and was unknown to Wurtzel.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 2 . 121
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (25mm, 2.68 g, 10h). Revolutionary Period issue, struck by Abu Muslim. Balkh mint. Dated AH 131 (AD 748/9). Klat 188; Wurtzel 20. Old loop mount attached. Good Fine. Very rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 2 . 122
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (23.5mm, 2.90 g, 9h). Revolutionary Period issue, struck by partisans of 'Abdallah b. Mu'awiya. Darabjird mint. Dated AH 128 (AD 745/6). Klat 301 (same dies as illustration); Wurtzel –. Good VF. Extremely rare, only two specimens recorded by Klat.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 2 . 123
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (24mm, 2.90 g, 1h). Revolutionary Period issue, struck by partisans of 'Abdallah b. Mu'awiya. Al-Rayy mint. Dated AH 129 (AD 746/7). Klat 409; Wurtzel 10. Double-striking on reverse. EF. Rare. Ex Baldwin's Islamic Auction 27 (10 December 2014), lot 167.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 2 . 124
Umayyad Caliphate, Bronze coinage. Æ Fals (18mm, 2.36 g, 9h). Nimruz mint. Dated AH 115 (AD 733/4). Obverse field: ∵ / bismillah / duriba Nimr- / ∵uz / Reverse field: ∵ / sanat khams / 'ashra wa mi'at / ∴. Unpublished. Good VF. Of the highest rarity, apparently unique.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 2 . 125
'Abbasid Caliphate. temp. Al-Mansur. AH 136-158 / AD 754-775. AE Heavy Fals (29mm, 14.75 g, 11h). Al-Mawsil mint. Dated AH 145 (AD 762/3). Citing the caliphal heir Ja'far b. al-Mansur. Shamma p. 69, 6. Some spotting, edge flaw, earthen highlights over black surfaces. VF. Rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 2 . 126
'Abbasid Caliphate. temp. Al-Mahdi. AH 158-169 / AD 775-785. AR Dirham (25.5mm, 2.81 g, 9h). Al-Yamama mint. Dated AH 167 (AD 783/4). Reverse field: citing the caliph and the local governor Hajar. Lowick 578. Near VF. The mint of al-Yamama produced 'Abbasid dirhams between AH 165-170. These constitute the first Islamic silver coinage from a mint in the present-day Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.