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 . 22
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (27.4mm, 2.79 g, 6h). Al-Andalus mint. Dated AH 112 (AD 730/31). Obverse marginal legend arranged in a square; annulets ◉ ◉ ◉ ◉ around / Reverse annulets: ◦◦ ◦◦ ◦◦ ◦◦ . Cf. Morton & Eden 73 ( 23 April 2015), lot 23 (same dies); Klat 125.c var. (four plain annnulets in reverse margin); al-'Ajlan 112/226. Light scuff on obverse. Good Fine. Excessively rare, apparently the second published example of this rare variety.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 23
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (27.6mm, 2.92 g, 6h). Al-Andalus mint. Dated AH 113 (AD 731/32). Four concentric annulets in obverse margin. Klat 126. Uneven tone, faint surface marks. Near EF.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 24
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (28mm, 2.83 g, 5h). Al-Andalus mint. Dated AH 114 (AD 732/33). Klat 127. Cleaned, minor obverse staining. Good VF.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 25
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (26.8mm, 2.63 g, 1h). Bahurasir mint. Dated AH 97 (AD 715/16). Klat 191; al-'Ajlan 97/9. Ex-mount, some edge losses. Fine. Extremely rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 26
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (27.2mm, 2.27 g, 12h). Al-Jazira mint. Dated AH 79 (AD 698/9). Klat -; al-'Ajlan 79/0016. Staining, some edge losses and a small piece broken and repaired. Fine. Excessively rare, the earliest date for the mint and unknown to Klat.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 27
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (28.1mm, 2.86 g, 6h). Al-Jazira mint. Dated AH 95 (AD 713/14). Obverse margin: pellet below b of bi'l-Jazira. Klat 220 var. (no pellet below mint-name); al-'Ajlan 95/14 (same obverse die as illustration). Choice EF, some lustre. Extremely rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 28
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (24mm, 2.16 g, 11h). Al-Jisr mint. Dated AH 80 (AD 699/700). Obverse margin reads duriba hadha al-dirham fi al-Jisr fi sanat.... Klat 230; Ajlan p.100, 14. Evenly clipped, cleaned. VF. Rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 29
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (21.6mm, 2.12 g, 10h). Jur mint. Dated AH 83 (AD 702/3). Klat 251; Ajlan p.120, 8. Clipped, cleaned with minor deposit remaining. VF. Rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 30
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (24.8mm, 2.79 g, 10h). Dabil mint. Dated AH 86 (AD 705). Klat 287; al-'Ajlan 86/2. Good VF.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 31
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (26.1mm, 2.77 g, 1h). Radhan mint. Dated AH 90 (AD 708/9). Klat 378 (same dies as illustration) = al-'Ajlan 90/97. Arabic graffiti in reverse field. Good VF. Excessively rare, only two specimens recorded by Klat. Radhan is one of the very rarest Umayyad dirham mints, known only from a tiny number of specimens dated AH 90. The districts of Upper and Lower Radhan lay about twenty miles south of present-day Baghdad, and included the ancient city of Ctesiphon, which also appears as an Umayyad dirham mint under the name of al-Madinat al-'Atiqa. Mediaeval writers extolled the quality of the crops and produce grown in the district of Radhan.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 32
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (22.3mm, 2.32 g, 10h). Ramhurmuz mint. Dated AH 83 (AD 702/3). Klat 382; al-'Ajlan 83/9 (same reverse die as illustration). Clipped. Fine. Rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 33
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (28.2mm, 2.74 g, 4h). Risha mint. Dated AH 89 (AD 707/8). Cf. Klat 392 (as 'Ralsa', dated AH 90); cf. al'Ajlan 90/98 (as 'Ralsa', dated AH 90). Minor staining in margins. Good VF. Of the highest rarity, apparently unpublished and believed unique. This mint-name has long been read as Ralsa, a suggestion apparently first made by Samir Shamma who proposed that it was 'a place in Armenia, erroneously spelled Dalsa by the mediaeval geographers' (Bates. M., 'Mystery Mints of the Umayyads', ONS Occasional Paper 22, December 1987). More recently, it has been suggested that the mint-name should be read as Risha, which has been interpreted as an Arabic version of the name of the ancient city known to the Romans as Rhesaena. The name Rhesaena itself is an adaptation of the Syriac Rēš Aynā, meaning 'head of the spring', of which the town's later Arabic name, Ra's al-'Ayn, is a literal translation. Ra's al-'Ayn appears as a mint-name on 'Abbasid gold and silver coins around the close of the third century Hijri. Numismatic support for this identification comes from comparison of dirhams of Risha with those struck at the nearby mint of Harran. Harran, the ancient Carrhae, is roughly sixty miles due west of Ra's al-'Ayn. Dirhams were struck in Harran in AH 87, 88 and 89, after which the mint ceased production under the Umayyads. As dirhams with the mint-name Risha were struck immediately afterwards, with examples now known dated AH 89 (the present coin), 90 and 91, it is tempting to suggest that the mint was simply moved from Harran to Risha during the year AH 89, probably in the context of the military operations then being undertaken on the Syrian frontier against the Byzantines. The style of the epigraphy on the Risha dirhams is identical with the Harran issues, both being characteristic of coins struck in the Umayyad North rather than in the East.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 34
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (26.5mm, 2.35 g, 10h). Zaranj mint. Dated AH 101 (AD 719/20). Klat 412 (same reverse die as illustration); al-'Ajlan 101/7. Hoard-stained, some pin-marks from attempted cleaning. VF. Very rare. Umayyad dirhams bearing the mint-name Sijistan are known for all years between AH 90 and AH 102 (Klat 432-444), and it is generally accepted that these coins were struck at Zaranj, which was the provincial capital. This being so, the existence of rare dirhams dated AH 101 and 102 with the mint-name Zaranj, apparently struck concurrently with the Sijistan issues, requires explanation. The account in the Tarikh-i Sistan makes it clear that AH 101 was a year of considerable turmoil in the province, with at least three men being appointed to govern there in this year alone. One of these, Sabbak b. al-Munzar, was a viceroy appointed by the governor of Khurasan, while two others, 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Abdallah and Mu'arrak b. al-Salt, were appointed directly by the caliph 'Umar. The Tarikh-i Sistan implies that Sabbak's governorship ran concurrently with those of 'Umar's two appointees, and that two different sources of authority were therefore attempting to rule in Sijistan. The operation of two dirham mints in the province during this period is therefore explicable if we assume that one was under the control of Sabbak and the other was striking coins for 'Umar's governors. The distinctive epigraphy on Umayyad dirhams from Zaranj, memorably described by al-'Ush as 'bad and alien', is a consequence of the dies having been prepared locally rather than by any central authority.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 35
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (26.9mm, 2.54 g, 6h). Sijistan mint. Dated AH 101 (AD 719/20). Obverse annulets: apparently ◦◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ (as on dirhams of Zaranj dated AH 101). Klat 443 var. (pellet below mint-name); al-'Ajlan 101/07 var. (pellet below mint-name). Near Fine. Extremely rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 36
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (24.8mm, 2.35 g, 2h). Sijistan mint. Dated AH 129 (AD 746/7). Klat 447; al-'Ajlan 129/7. Clipped, cleaned. Good Fine. Rare, only three specimens recorded by Klat.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 37
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (27.1mm, 2.85 g, 6h). Tabaristan mint. Dated AH 102 (AD 720/1). Obverse margin: unit of date reads ithnatayn. Klat 496.b; al-'Ajlan 102/11. Minor staining. Near EF. Very rare, three specimens of this variety recorded by Klat. Ex Baldwin's Islamic Coin Auction 23 (6 December 2012), lot 116.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 38
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (25.6mm, 2.50 g, 4h). Al-Furat mint. Dated AH 79 (AD 698/9). Klat 501; al-'Ajlan 79/15. VF. Very rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 39
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (25.8mm, 2.72 g, 1h). Qumis mint. Dated AH 92 (AD 710/11). Klat 519; al-'Ajlan 92/33 (same obverse die). Pin marks in obverse field. VF.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 40
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (25.1mm, 2.88 g, 4h). Al-Kufa mint. Dated AH 127 (AD 744/5). Obverse: annulets ◦◦ ◦◦ ◦◦ ◦◦ ◦◦ . Klat -; al-'Ajlan 249/127 (this piece). Obverse a little porous. Near VF, toned. Of the highest rarity, apparently the only published specimen. Ex Morton & Eden 95 (24 October 2018), lot 41.In AH 127, 'Abdallah b. Mu'awiya launched a rebellion against the Umayyad governor of Kufa during the month of Muharram. 'Abdallah's revolt was unsuccessful; he was expelled from the city and made his way to Isbahan, leaving Kufa still loyal to the Umayyads. Later that year, however, the city was taken by the Kharijite al-Dahhak b. Qays al-Shaybani, who installed a governor of his own there. It was this individual who struck dirhams at Kufa in AH 128 which bear the Kharijite slogan la hukma illa lillah in the obverse margin. But al-Dahhak was killed in battle in AH 128 by Marwan II, after which Kufa returned to Umayyad control. Standard Umayyad dirhams were struck there in AH 128 and 129. The existence of this coin, which is believed to be unique, demonstrates that the mint of Kufa had already reopened by the time al-Dahhak began striking Kharijite dirhams there in AH 128.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 41
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (27.1mm, 2.82 g, 11h). Marw mint. Dated AH 102 (AD 720/1). Obverse field: pellet below sh of sharik in third line. Klat 599; al-'Ajlan 206/102. Good VF. Very rare, only four specimens recorded by Klat.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 42
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (21.5mm, 1.76 g, 10h). Manadhir mint. Dated AH 79 (AD 698/9). Klat 610; Ajlan p. 97, 52. Clipped, cleaned, light graffiti on reverse. VF. Very rare, only three specimens recorded by Klat.