Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1
Date: 2023-10-19 00:00:00
Lots: 233
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Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 106
Tulunids. Harun b. Khumarawayh. AH 283-292 / AD 896-904. AV Donative Dinar (23.4mm, 4.20 g, 10h). Medallic type with broad margins. Misr mint. Dated AH 285 (AD 898). Reverse field: lillah / Muhammad / rasul / Allah / al-Mu'tadid billah / Harun. SICA 6, 110 (same dies) = Bernardi 215De; Grabar -. Minor marks. Good VF. Excessively rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 107
Ikhshidids. Abu'l-Fawaris Ahmad. AH 357-358 / AD 968-969. AV Dinar (22.6mm, 4.54 g, 3h). Filastin mint. Dated AH 359 (AD 969/70). Obverse field: la ilaha illah / Allah wahdahu / la sharik lahu / al-Hasan ibn / 'Ubaydallah; pellets variously above, below, to left and to right / Reverse field: • lillah • / Muhammad / rasul Allah salla / Allah 'alayhi wa 'ala alahu / al-Muti' lillah / Ahmad ibn 'Ali / Tughj. Bacharach 109; Jeselsohn 511; SICA 6, 216; Album 682. Centres a little weak. Near EF. Very rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 108
Qaramita (Qarmatids). al-Hasan b. Ahmad. fl. AH 360-365 / AD 971-976. AR Dirham (23mm, 2.40 g, 4h). Filastin mint. Dated AH 360 (AD 970/1). Obverse field: citing al-Sadat al-Rusa, 'The Council of Chiefs', in fourth line / Reverse field: citing al-Hasan ibn Ahmad in bottom line. Jeselsohn 521; Vardanyan, Sectarians 7; Album 685. Centres weak. Near Fine. Very rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 109
Qaramita (Qarmatids). al-Hasan b. Ahmad. fl. AH 360-365 / AD 971-976. AR Dirham (23.1mm, 2.49 g, 10h). Filastin mint. Dated AH 365 (AD 975/6). Obverse field: al-Sadat al-Rusa / Isfaq, Kisra, Ja'far in third and fourth lines; letter nun below / Reverse field: citing al-Sayyid al-Ra'is ('The Head Chief', i.e. al-Hasan b. Ahmad) in bottom line. Jeselsohn 530; Vardanyan, Sectarians -; Album 685. Slight crease, a few scratches in fields. Near VF. Very rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 110
Qaramita (Qarmatids). al-Hasan b. Ahmad. fl. AH 360-365 / AD 971-976. AR Dirham (23.8mm, 3.32 g, 10h). Filastin mint. Dated AH 365 (AD 975/6). Obverse field: al-Sadat al-Rusa / Isfaq, Kisra, Ja'far in third and fourth lines; ornament above; pellets and S-shaped decoration below / Reverse field: citing al-Sayyid al-Ra'is ('The Head Chief', i.e. al-Hasan b. Ahmad) in bottom line. Jeselsohn 532; Vardanyan, Sectarians -; Album 685. VF for issue. Very rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 111
Qaramita (Qarmatids). Alptekin Abu Mansur al-Mu'izzi. fl. AH 364-367 / AD 975-978. AR Dirham (24mm, 2.88 g, 2h). Filastin mint. Dated AH 367 (AD 977/8). Obverse field: citing al-Sayyid al-Ra'is, ('The Head Chief'), in fifth line / Reverse field: citing al-Sayyid Ja'far ibn al-Fadl / Abu Mansur al-Mu'izzi. Jeselsohn 536; Vardanyan, Sectarians -; Album 687. Cleaned, slightly buckled flan. Near VF for issue. Rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 112
Fatimids. temp. Abu 'Abdallah al-Shi'i. AH 296-297 / AD 909-911. AV Dinar (17.8mm, 4.18 g, 4h). Al-Qayrawan mint. Dated AH 297 (AD 909/10). Nicol 4 (this coin cited). Edge marks. Good VF. Extremely rare. Ex Spink Zurich 27 (1 June 1988), lot 92 (illustrated on front cover).
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 113
Fatimids. al-Mahdi billah. AH 297-322 / AD 910-934. AV Dinar (18.6mm, 4.18 g, 11h). Al-Qayrawan mint. Dated AH 297 (AD 909/10). Nicol 23 (this coin cited). VF. Very rare. Ex Spink Zurich 22 (17 March 1987), lot 34.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 114
Fatimids. al-Mahdi billah. AH 297-322 / AD 910-934. AV Dinar (19.3mm, 4.19 g, 2h). Al-Qayrawan mint. Dated AH 305 (AD 917/8). Nicol 33. Superb EF. Very rare, especially in this condition.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 115
Fatimids. al-Mahdi billah. AH 297-322 / AD 910-934. AV Dinar (21mm, 4.16 g, 8h). Al-Mahdiya mint. Dated AH 308 (AD 920/1). Nicol 53. Faint edge marks. Good Fine. Extremely rare, only two examples recorded by Nicol.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 116
Fatimids. al-Mahdi billah. AH 297-322 / AD 910-934. AV Dinar (22.2mm, 4.08 g, 2h). Al-Mahdiya mint. Dated AH 320 (AD 932). Nicol 65. VF. Rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 117
Fatimids. al-Mahdi billah. AH 297-322 / AD 910-934. AV Dinar (18.8mm, 4.20 g, 2h). Without mint-name. Dated AH 311 (AD 923/4). Nicol 93a. Minor edge marks, scuffed on reverse. VF for issue. Extremely rare, only one example recorded by Nicol.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 118
Fatimids. al-Mahdi billah. AH 297-322 / AD 910-934. AV Dinar (18.8mm, 4.17 g, 11h). Without mint-name. Dated AH 319 (AD 931). Cf. Nicol 100 (dated AH 318). File marks on edge. Near VF. Excessively rare, apparently unpublished.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 119
Fatimids. al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah. AH 322-334 / AD 934-946. AV Dinar (19.4mm, 3.94 g, 11h). Al-Mahdiya mint. Dated AH 323 (AD 934/5). Nicol 153. Near VF. Rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 120
Fatimids. Abu Yazid al-Nukkari. Rebel, AH 332-336 / AD 943-947. AV Dinar (18.2mm, 4.15 g, 12h). Al-Qayrawan mint. Dated AH 333 (AD 944/5). Obverse field: rabbuna Allah / la hukm illa lillah / la ilaha illa Allah / wahdahu la sharik lahu / al-haqq al-mubin / Reverse field: al-'izza lillah / Muhammad / rasul / Allah / khatam al-nabiyyin. Nicol 201. Minor weakness. Near VF. Very rare. Abu Yazid Makhlad was born circa AH 270 and grew up in Tuzir (Byzantine Tusuros) in south-west Tunisia. As a young man he moved to Tahirt, the capital of the local Rustamid dynasty and the spiritual centre of the Ibadi movement. Abu Yazid himself became a leader of the Nukkari sect and so after the Rustamids were overthrown by the Fatimid partisan Abu 'Abdallah al-Shi'i in AH 296 Abu Yazid's hatred of the Fatimids was fuelled by his personal experience as well as religious disagreement. After the fall of the Rustamids, Abu Yazid spent more than a decade fomenting anti-Fatimid feeling. By AH 322, when the Fatimid al-Mahdi died, Abu Yazid was the leader of a confederation of local tribes, working to form a broad coalition to oppose Fatimid rule. After a brief spell in prison, in AH 332 he was at last able to rouse the local tribes into launching an all-out assault on the Fatimids. At an early stage of this campaign someone brought him a grey donkey to ride, and the image of this old man, simply dressed and riding a donkey, had a powerful effect in convincing his supporters of his righteousness and determination. Several towns soon fell to Abu Yazid and his army. Baja, which resisted, was sacked and burned but Tunis, which surrendered, was spared. Qayrawan itself fell in AH 333 and Abu Yazid allowed his Berber troops to pillage the city, remarking that even Jerusalem and Makka had suffered destruction in the past. The future of the Fatimid caliphate hung in the balance as Abu Yazid marched onwards to Mahdiya which he besieged in AH 334, with the caliph al-Qa'im trapped inside. But the city held out, and Abu Yazid's supporters proved to have little appetite for a protracted siege. Finally, al-Qa'im was able to break out through and launch an assault on the rebel's waning forces. Abu Yazid fled, and while al-Qa'im himself died during the siege his successor, Isma'il al-Mansur, launched a vigorous counter-attack. Abu Yazid withdrew to Qayrawan, but the cititzens now resented him for the brutality of his Berber troops and he found the gates closed against him. With his remaining followers he fled into the mountains, but the Fatimid forces pursued him and managed to capture the hilltop fortress where Abu Yazid had taken refuge. It seems that the rebel himself nearly contrived to escape in the darkness, but was captured after he fell into a ravine while trying to flee. He died of his wounds four days later, probably in Muharram of AH 336.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 121
Fatimids. al-Mansur billah. AH 334-341 / AD 946-953. AV Quarter-Dinar (15mm, 1.02 g, 2h). Al-Mahdiya mint. Dated AH 337, month of Sha'ban. Nicol 238 (this coin cited). Good Fine. Very rare. Ex Spink Zurich 22 (17 March 1987), lot 36.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 122
Fatimids. al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah. AH 341-365 / AD 953-975. AV Quarter-Dinar (15.7mm, 1.03 g, 8h). Atarablus mint. Dated AH 365 (AD 975). Nicol 332. Minor marks, slightly ragged edge. Good VF. Extremely rare, only three examples recorded by Nicol.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 123
Fatimids. al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah. AH 341-365 / AD 953-975. AV Dinar (22.8mm, 4.83 g, 11h). Filastin mint. Dated AH 359 (AD 969/70). Nicol 336; Jeselsohn 540. Light deposit. Near EF. Very rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 124
Fatimids. al-'Aziz billah. AH 365-386 / AD 975-996. AV Dinar (20.6mm, 4.13 g, 12h). Dimashq mint. Dated AH 381 (AD 991/2). Obverse field: letter D in centre / Reverse field: letters M-Q in centre. Nicol 553 (this piece). Near EF. Of the highest rarity, apparently unique. Ex Spink Zurich 22 (17 March 1987), lot 182.The letters in the fields on both sides of this remarkable type are interpreted by Nicol as spelling the mint-name: Dimashq.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 125
Fatimids. al-'Aziz billah. AH 365-386 / AD 975-996. AV Dinar (20.5mm, 4.09 g, 10h). Tarablus mint. Dated AH 369 (979/80). Nicol 637 (this piece?). Fine. Extremely rare, only a single example recorded by Nicol.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Islamic Auction 4 - Session 1 . 126
Fatimids. al-'Aziz billah. AH 365-386 / AD 975-996. AV Dinar (19.1mm, 4.13 g, 2h). Tarablus mint. Dated AH 375 (AD 985/6). Nicol 642 (this piece). Edge marks. VF. Of the highest rarity, apparently unique. Ex Sotheby's (18 October 1983), lot 242.