Islamic Auction 3
Date: 2023-04-27 00:00:00
Lots: 270
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Umayyad Caliphate, Gold coinage. AV Dinar (19.5mm, 4.24 g, 7h). Without mint-name. Dated AH 104 (AD 722/3). Reverse margin: point below b of duriba. ICV 198; Walker 223. In NGC encapsulation 6382233-009, graded MS 62.
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Umayyad Caliphate, Gold coinage. AV Dinar (20mm, 4.24 g, 5h). Without mint-name. Dated AH 114 (AD 732/3). ICV 208; Walker 234. In NGC encapsulation 6382233-991, graded MS 63.
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Umayyad Caliphate, Gold coinage. AV Dinar (19.2mm, 4.22 g, 5h). Without mint-name. Dated AH 118 (AD 736/7). ICV 212; Walker 238. EF, some lustre. From the collection of the late Dr. M.F.W. Al Katib. Ex Sotheby's (30 March 1995), lot 24 (part).
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Umayyad Caliphate, Gold coinage. AV Dinar (19.7mm, 4.28 g, 6h). Without mint-name. Dated AH 119 (AD 737/8). ICV 213; Walker 239. A couple of barely visible hairlines in fields. AU, lustrous. From the collection of the late Dr. M.F.W. Al Katib. Ex Sotheby's (30 March 1995), lot 24 (part).
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Umayyad Caliphate, Gold coinage. AV Dinar (19.9mm, 4.25 g, 8h). Without mint-name. Dated AH 121 (AD 739/40). ICV 215; Walker 241. AU. From the collection of the late Dr. M.F.W. Al Katib.
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Umayyad Caliphate, Gold coinage. AV Dinar (19.2mm, 4.26 g, 5h). Without mint-name. Dated AH 124 (AD 742/3). ICV 218; Walker 244. Choice EF. From the collection of the late Dr. M.F.W. Al Katib.
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Umayyad Caliphate, Gold coinage. AV Dinar (19.4mm, 4.26 g, 7h). Without mint-name. Dated AH 127 (AD 744/5). ICV 221; Walker 247. Obverse a little double-struck. EF. Extremely rare, the key date for the series.
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Umayyad Caliphate, Gold coinage. AV Dinar (19.2mm, 4.28 g, 6h). Without mint-name. Dated AH 128 (AD 745/6). ICV 222; Walker 248. AU, lustrous.
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Umayyad Caliphate, Gold coinage. AV Dinar (19.2mm, 4.25 g, 5h). Without mint-name. Dated AH 131 (AD 749/50). ICV 225; Walker 251. Good VF. From the collection of the late Dr. M.F.W. Al Katib. Ex Sotheby's (9 April 1992), lot 307.
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Umayyad Caliphate, Gold coinage. AV Dinar (18.7mm, 4.26 g, 11h). Ifriqiya mint. Dated AH 102 (AD 720/1). Obverse: pellet above sanat in marginal legend. Bernardi 44Ca; SICA 2, 332-3; Walker p. 99, *; ICV 227. Near EF. Very rare.
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Umayyad Caliphate, Gold coinage. AV Dinar (21.9mm, 4.17 g, 7h). Ifriqiya mint. Dated AH 122 (AD 739/40). Bernardi 43Ca; Walker B.16 = Nützel 508; ICV 227. Damage at edge by decade of date and deep scratch to the left of the first two lines of reverse field; a few other lighter pin-marks in fields. VF. Extremely rare. The Umayyads began striking gold dinars with the mint-name Ifriqiya in AH 100, although it seems only small quantities were ever produced. In a conscious move to distinguish these coins from standard Damascus issues, Ifriqiya dinars struck between AH 100-110 carry different legends in the fields, with a shortened kalima on the obverse and bismillah / al-rahman / al-rahim on the reverse. This so-called Western type was also struck in Spain from AH 102 until at least AH 108, but by AH 114 both Ifriqiya and al-Andalus had begun to produce gold dinars which were identical to Damascus issues except for the addition of the mint-name in the reverse marginal legend. These are rarer than the earlier Western types, and the coin offered here, dated AH 122, appears to be an example of the latest recorded date for Umayyad gold of Ifriqiya. While Bernardi apparently cites four examples of this mint and date, his notes in fact only record three different specimens. Walker (p. 100) states that the Berlin piece (Nützel 508) was the same coin as that published by Lane-Poole (Catalogue of the Collection of Oriental Coins belonging to Col. C. Seton Guthrie), Hertford, 1874.
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Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (25.5mm, 2.60 g, 3h). Ard mint. Dated AH 82 (AD 701/2). Klat 30 (same dies as illustration); al-'Ajlan p. 113, 3 (same dies as illustration); SCC -. Edge clip. VF. Extremely rare, only two specimens recorded by Klat. Ex Triton XXIII (14 January 2020), lot 946.'Ard' is one of the rarest Umayyad mint-names, and various suggestions have been proposed for how it should be interpreted. Initially read as Urdu, meaning 'camp,' Michael Bates subsequently proposed that Ard was 'nothing more than a die-engraver's error for Ardashir Khurra' (Bates, Mystery Mints of the Umayyads, ONS Occasional Paper 22, 1987). Since Bates wrote, however, another dirham from 'Ard' has come to light dated AH 79 (Klat 29), and since it is far less plausible to suggest that the same error should have been made on two occasions three years apart, 'Ard' is now generally regarded as being an authentic mint-name in its own right, even though its location is not yet known.
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Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (26.8mm, 2.80 g, 6h). Ardashir Khurra mint. Dated AH 84 (AD 703). Obverse margin reads bismillah duriba hadha al-dirham bi-Ardashir Khurra fi arba' wa thamanin / Reverse margin begins (exceptionally) at 10h. Klat 33; al-'Ajlan p. 123, 2; SCC -. Cleaned. Near VF. Extremely rare. The unit of the date is defectively written and the word sanat has been omitted from the mint/date legend. Surprisingly, the four known examples of this mint and date were all struck from different obverse dies, all of which share the omission of sanat and curious rendering of arba'. It is difficult to explain this except by assuming that they were all copied from an incorrectly-written original. An Iranian die-engraver of this period may well have been unable to read the Arabic legends on these coins, and would not have noticed or been able to rectify such mistakes.
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Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (26.8mm, 2.79 g, 11h). Ifriqiya mint. Dated AH 119 (AD 737). Pellet below reverse field. Klat 106; al-'Ajlan p.282, 2; SCC -. VF. Rare.
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Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (27.8mm, 2.24 g, 7h). Barda'a mint. Dated AH 92 (AD 710/11). Klat 159 (same obverse die) = al-'Ajlan p. 162, 14. Edge chip, minor staining. VF. Of the highest rarity, only a single (broken) specimen recorded by Klat.
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Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (27.2mm, 2.37 g, 5h). Bizamqubadh mint. Dated AH 80 (AD 699/700). Klat 161; al- 'Ajlan p. 99, 7. Stained, edge chip. Fine. Rare.
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Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (26.4mm, 2.85 g, 9h). Madinat Balkh al-Baida mint. Dated AH 111 (AD 729/30). Pellet above k of sharik in third line of obverse field. Klat 176; al-'Ajlan p. 266, 6; SCC 691. Cleaned. Good VF.
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Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (26.2mm, 2.82 g, 12h). Bihqubah al-Asfal mint. Dated AH 90 (AD 708/9). Klat 192; al-'Ajlan p. 142, 11. Good VF. Rare. From the collection of the late Dr. M.F.W. Al Katib.
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Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (27.8mm, 1.86 g, 11h). Tawwaj mint. Dated AH 82 (AD 701/2). Klat 199; al-'Ajlan p. 114, 13. Edge repaired between 12h and 3h on obverse. Good Fine. Extremely rare, only two specimens recorded by Klat. One of the rarest mints for Umayyad dirhams, Tawwaj is another example of an Arab-Sasanian mint which was briefly revived during the first five years of the post-Reform silver coinage. Under the mint-signature TART, Tawwaj struck Arab-Sasanian drachms from the late 60s until AH 80, and while it was never prolific a number of these issues are not rare. There is no obvious explanation as to why it should have been reopened as a post-Reform mint in this year only to be closed almost immediately. No further coins of Tawwaj are known before AH 132, when copper fulus were issued there.
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Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (27.2mm, 2.27 g, 12h). Al-Jazira mint. Dated AH 79 (AD 698/9). Klat -; al- 'Ajlan p. 92, 22. Staining, some edge losses and a small piece broken and repaired. Fine. Excessively rare, the earliest date for the mint and unknown to Klat.
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Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (23.6mm, 2.23 g, 4h). Janza mint. Dated AH 91 (AD 709/10). Obverse margin: pellet below b of duriba, pellet below j of Janza, and triplet of pellets below t of tisa'in. Klat 248 = al-'Ajlan p. 153, 18. Evenly clipped (not affecting legends). VF, toned. Excessively, rare only a single specimen recorded by Klat.