Watch List notes:

ABBASID, AL-MU'TAMID (256-279h), Dinar, al-Ahwaz 262h. OBVERSE: In field: la ilaha illa | Allah wahdahu | la sharik lahu | al-Muwaffaq billah. WEIGHT: 4.38g. REFERENCES: Bernardi 177Nd (one example listed) = Emirates Coin Auction 1, Dubai, 21 March 1999, lot 214, same dies; Morton and Eden auction 69, 10 April 2014, lot 37, same dies. CONDITION: Weak areas in upper fields on both sides, good fine and extremely rare. NOTE: The mint-name on this specimen has been recut on the die. Enough remains of the undertype to show that it contained a long 'box' letter, but it is now difficult to suggest what the original mint-name might have been. The most likely candidate might seem to be al-Basra, although no other dinars of this type are known from Basra, which in any case had been sacked by the Zanj rebels five years previously.

Estimate: £1,200-1500