Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1
Fecha: 2023-10-19 00:00:00
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Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 190
Great Mongols. Chingiz (Genghis). AH 602-624 / AD 1206-1227. AV Dinar (21.1mm, 2.29 g, 5h). Bukhara mint. Undated. Obverse: Bukhara / la ilaha illa / Allah Muhammad / rasul Allah; traces of marginal legend around / Reverse: Jinkiz Khan / al-a'dil / al-a'zam; traces of marginal legend around. SNAT XVa, 267; Album 1964. Ragged flan, typical weak striking. Good Fine for issue. Rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 191
Great Mongols. Chingiz (Genghis). AH 602-624 / AD 1206-1227. AV Dinar (22.2mm, 5.34 g, 1h). Bukhara mint. Undated. Obverse: Bukhara / la ilaha illa / Allah Muhammad / rasul Allah; traces of marginal legend around / Reverse: Jinkiz Khan / al-a'dil / al-a'zam; traces of marginal legend around. SNAT XVa, 267; Album 1964. Near VF, with Genghis Khan's name particularly clear. Rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 192
Great Mongols. Chingiz (Genghis). AH 602-624 / AD 1206-1227. AV Dinar (22.2mm, 3.13 g, 11h). Bukhara mint. Undated. Obverse: Bukhara / la ilaha illa / Allah Muhammad / rasul Allah; traces of marginal legend around / Reverse: Jinkiz Khan / al-a'dil / al-a'zam; traces of marginal legend around. SNAT XVa, 267; Album 1964. Edge splits, typically crudely struck. Good Fine for issue. Rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 193
Great Mongols. Chingiz (Genghis). AH 602-624 / AD 1206-1227. AR Dirham (15.9mm, 3.09 g, 2h). Without mint-name (probably struck at Ghazna). Undated. Obverse: citing the 'Abbasid caliph al-Nasir (AH 575-622) / Reverse: al-'adil / al-a'zam / Jinkiz Khan. SNAT XIVd, 646; Album 1967; ICV 1941. Minor staining on reverse. Good VF.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 194
Great Mongols. temp. Chingiz (Genghis). AH 602-624 / AD 1206-1227. AV Dinar (23.7mm, 2.08 g, 2h). Anonymous type. Samarqand mint. Dated AH 622 (AD 1225). Obverse margin: mint and date / In fields both sides: la ilaha illa / Allah wahdahu / la sharik / lahu; mint above reverse field. Cf. SNAT XVa, 960 (dated AH 630); Album O3738. Typical coarse strike. Good Fine for issue. Rare. The date on this coin is fully legible, and confirms that it was struck during the lifetime of Genghis Khan.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 195
Great Mongols. temp. Chingiz (Genghis). AH 602-624 / AD 1206-1227. AV Dinar (24.4mm, 4.03 g, 5h). Anonymous type, citing only the caliph al-Nasir. Mint (if any) not visible. Undated. Obverse field: Kalima in three lines; Khani below / Reverse field: Qaan / al-'adil al-a / 'zam al-N- / asir li-din / Allah. Album A1967. Edge split. VF. This type, which cites the caliph al-Nasir (died AH 622), can be dated to the reign of Genghis Khan.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 196
Great Mongols. temp. Ögedei. AH 624-639 / AD 1227-1241. AV Dinar (20.6mm, 2.58 g, 7h). With Shi'ite legends. Astarabad mint. Undated. Obverse field: la ilaha illa Allah / Muhammad rasul Allah / 'Ali wali Allah / Reverse field: Astarabad / al-Khaqan / al-'adil / al-a'zam. Album 1966 var. (to be Album 3723A in next edition). VF. Rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 197
Great Mongols. temp. Ögedei. AH 624-639 / AD 1227-1241. AV Dinar (23.3mm, 2.98 g, 7h). Bukhara mint. Undated. Entirely anonymous type, with kalima in three lines on both sides, mint-name below. Album B1967. VF.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 198
Great Mongols. temp. Ögedei. AH 624-639 / AD 1227-1241. AV Dinar (15.9mm, 1.53 g, 1h). Marw mint. Undated. Reverse field: al-Madina / Qaan al-'adil / Marw. Cf. CNG 489 (7 April 2021), lot 669; Album -. VF. Very rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 199
Great Mongols. temp. Ögedei. AH 624-639 / AD 1227-1241. AR Multiple Dirham (32.6mm, 15.92 g, 5h). Balad Kurraman mint. Undated. Obverse: fi balad / al-Kurraman in square frame with floral ornaments in segments / Reverse: har ki nastirad / gunahkar / shad ('Who does not accept this coin is a sinner') in three lines. Cf. CNG Islamic Auction 1 (25 May 2022), lot 208. Possible traces of mounting. VF, toned. Extremely rare. Ex Triton XXIV (January 19 2021), lot 1231.According to the Encylopædia of Islam the Kurram valley is a thin wedge of territory, through which flows the Kurram River, a tributary of the Indus. It is some seventy miles long and covers an area of 1,305 square miles on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. From the legends on the coin it would appear that the town of Kurraman was a largely independent, self-governing territory whose strategic position facilitated trade and communication between Afghanistan and the Indus Valley. This is made clear because the town's exceedingly rare coinage is totally anonymous, and owes allegiance to no political entity. However, this coin was almost certainly struck during the reign of the Mongol Great Khan Ogedei, and Kurraman could be said to exist in the shadow of his distant rule. The legends on all the coins from the Kurraman mint at this time, gold, copper and now silver, are always identical. This coinage does not appear to have been struck by any individual political authority, and apart from the name of the mint itself, it does not bear the usual name of a ruler or the year of its striking. Thus, it depended for its acceptance on the prestige of the Kurraman mint, the high quality of its metal and the phrase in Persian (the lingua franca of this region and age), 'Whoever does not accept this coin is a sinner,' which admonished those who might object to using it because they were put off by its anonymity. This is the first recorded silver coin of this type from the Kurraman mint. Its weight is heavier than that of the coins usually found in the region. It could be categorized as an early example of a silver tanka before the weight of this denomination was fixed by later rulers in Afghanistan and India to facilitate trade.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 200
Great Mongols. temp. Töregene Khatun. Regent, AH 639-644 / AD 1241-1246. AR 10-Dirhams (31mm, 28.31 g, 12h). Struck in the name of the 'Abbasid caliph al-Musta'sim (AH 640-656). Al-Balad al-Kurraman mint. Dated AH 641 (AD 1243/4). Obverse: al-Musta'sim / billah Amir / al-Mu'minin in three lines, within square frame, floral ornaments in segments / Reverse: duriba hadha / fi al-balad / al-Kurraman in three lines within square frame; bi-Tarikh sana - t ihda - wa arba'in - wa sitt mi'at in segments . Cf. Triton XXII (8 January 2019), lot 1234 (same dies). Attractively toned. Good VF. Very rare, probably the finest of the handful of specimens known. Ex Triton XXIV (19 January 2021), lot 1232.This handsome 10-dirham piece represents an important period in Mongol history. Following the Mongol conquest of eastern Afghanistan in AH 618 (AD 1221/2), the inhabitants of al-Kurraman, a river district in what are today the tribal borderlands between Afghanistan and Pakistan, showed their allegiance to the Mongols by striking coinage in the name of the Great Khan. Following the death of Ögedei Khan in AH 639 (AD 1241), a period of turmoil followed while the succession was resolved. Ögedei Khan's wife, Töregene (Turakina) became regent, serving until her son Güyük was elected Great Khan in AH 644 (AD 1246). During her regency, Töregene ruled with complete authority as Great Khatun – the female counterpart to the Great Khan. On this coin, however, neither Töregene's name or title appears, and from a numismatic perspective it may therefore be classified as an 'Abbasid issue, since the only issuing authority named is the caliph al-Musta'sim. While Kurraman appears to have enjoyed at least some autonomy during this period, the district was still very much under Mongol influence. During this uncertain period among their Mongol overlords, the al-Kurraman mint may have felt it prudent to strike a non-partisan issue in the name of the current 'Abbasid caliph. We can conjecture that these splendid pieces may have been used as tribute to the caliph in Baghdad, as payment for soldiery employed by Töregene, or to buy the loyalty of the locals.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 201
Great Mongols. temp. Töregene Khatun. Regent, AH 639-644 / AD 1241-1246. AR Dirham (17.7mm, 2.57 g, 3h). Warthan mint. Date off-flan. Obverse: ulugh mughal ulush bek ('Chief of the Great Mongol Nation'). Mounted archer riding to left, head turned back and shooting an arrow to right, hare running left below horse / Reverse: kalima in three lines within square frame, traces of mint-name (above); date (off-flan) in segments around. Cf. Vardanyan, A., 'Some Additions to the Coins...Ulūs (Ulūsh) Beg', ONS Newsletter 190 (2007), 21 (dated AH 642); Album 1976; cf CNG 366 (13 January 2016), lot 992 (same reverse die). Traces of mounting. Fine. Very rare. According to Vardanyan, Warthan was the Arabic form of the mediaeval Arabic town of Vardanakert, located on the right bank of the river Araxes near Barda'a.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 202
Ilkhanids. Gaykhatu. AH 690-694 / AD 1291-1295. AV Dinar (23.6mm, 4.60 g, 10h). Dar al-Mulk Shiraz mint. Dated AH 693 (AD 1293/4). Diler 233; Album 2158.1. Faint edge marks. Good VF. Rare. On this rare type the date is written in a combination of words and digits, and appears as 'three and ninety and hundred-6'.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 203
Ilkhanids. Öljeytü (Uljaytu). AH 703-716 / AD 1304-1316. AV Dinar (24.7mm, 8.40 g, 2h). Madinat Sultaniyya mint. Dated AH 713 (AD 1313/4). Diler 370 (this date not listed); Album 2186. Some deposit. Near VF. Rare. From the collection of the late Dr. M.F.W. Al-Katib.The city of Sultaniyya was founded early in the reign of Arghun (AH 683-690), and was considerably expanded and rebuilt during Uljaytu's reign. In AH 713 Sultaniyya was formally established as the Ilkhanid capital, and this coin was probably struck to mark this event. Little of Sultaniyya survives today except for Uljaytu's magnificent tomb, probably begun near the start of his reign. It seems that Uljaytu considered modifying this structure to be a shrine for the relics of the Shi'ite Imams 'Ali and Husayn, which Uljaytu had considered removing from their resting places in Iraq. But while the building still shows signs of this proposed change of use, this plan was later abandoned and the building eventually became Uljaytu's own tomb, as originally intended.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 204
Ilkhanids. Abu Sa'id Bahadur. AH 716-736 / AD 1316-1335. AV Dinar (21.8mm, 8.29 g, 10h). Type G. Tabriz mint. Dated AH 732 (AD 1331/2). Diler 525; Album 2212. Obverse slightly off-centre. Near EF.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 205
Ilkhanids. Abu Sa'id Bahadur. AH 716-736 / AD 1316-1335. AV Dinar (21.3mm, 9.16 g, 1h). Type G. Mardin mint. Dated AH 732 (AD 1332/3). Diler 525; Album 2212. Good VF.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 206
Ilkhanids. Sati Beg, Queen. AH 739 / AD 1338-1339. AV Dinar (19.3mm, 6.72 g, 8h). Hamadhan mint. Dated AH 739 (AD 1339/40). Diler 723; Album K2231. VF, reverse better. Excessively rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 207
Ilkhanids. Sulayman. AH 739-746 / AD 1339-1346. AV Dinar (23.8mm, 9.28 g, 11h). Sultaniya mint. Dated AH 743 (AD 1343/4). Reverse field: Sultan's name in Uyghur in middle line; duriba / Sultaniya above and below. Diler 786; Album F2248. Minor staining. Near EF with some lustre remaining. Very rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 208
Jalayrids. Shaykh Uways I. AH 757-776 / AD 1356-1374. AV Dinar (21.8mm, 8.80 g, 2h). Baghdad mint. Dated AH 762 (AD 1360/1). Rabino 5; Album 2297. Good VF. Rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 209
Timurids. 'Abdallah. AH 854-855 / AD 1450-1451. AV Mithqal (21.2mm, 4.32 g, 5h). Samarqand mint. Dated AH 855 (AD 1451/2). Obverse: Kalima in three lines within square frame, names of the four rashidun in angles / Reverse: with titles al-Sultan al 'adil / Murshid al-dunya wa'l-din in first two lines; mint and date (in numerals) at bottom. Cf. Zeno #253432 (a similar coin with date not legible). Struck on an elongated flan, some weakness on both sides. Good VF. Excessively rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 210
Safavids. 'Abbas III. AH 1145-1148 / AD 1732-1736. AV Ashrafi (24.3mm, 3.46 g, 7h). Isfahan mint. Dated AH 1145 (AD 1732/3). KM 348; Album 2693. EF.