Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1
Date: 2023-10-19 00:00:00
Lots: 233
Total starting: $ 0.00
Total realized: $ 0.00 (+0.00%)
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Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 232
SAUDI ARABIA, Kingdom (Sa'ud). 'Abd al-'Aziz. AH 1350/1-1373 / AD 1932-1952. AV Pattern Guinea (21.6mm, 7.983 g, 6h). Mint-name 'Makka al-Mukarrima' (but probably struck at the Paris mint). Dated AH 1370 (AD 1950). Cf. KM Pn6 = Heritage 3066 (17 August 2018), lot 30427 = Baldwin's Islamic Coin Auction 19 (25 April 2012), lot 107 (a proof striking with similar legends). UNC. Excessively rare, apparently unpublished as a currency striking. Designed as a trial for the newly established Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's first gold coinage, this coin, while denominated as a 'Saudi Guinea', was struck to the same weight standard as the British Sovereign. In its design this trial is similar to the layout adopted for the official trade issues, but without the additional diacritical marks on the reverse which were eventually added to the currency coinage (as on the following lot). The proof trial sold at Heritage in 2018 was described as having been struck by the Paris mint, with two further specimens reportedly still being held in the Paris mint's archive. No currency strikings of this unadopted type appear to have been published.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 233
SAUDI ARABIA, Kingdom (Sa'ud). 'Abd al-'Aziz. AH 1350/1-1373 / AD 1932-1952. AV Guinea (21.5mm, 7.98 g, 12h). Mint-name 'Makka al-Mukarrima' (but actually struck at the Paris mint). Dated AH 1370 (AD 1950). KM 36; Friedberg 1. UNC. From the collection of the late Dr. M.F.W. Al-Katib.