Watch List notes:

*Abbasid, possibly temp. al-Rashid (170-193h), fals, Tadila, undated, obv., Tadila above two six-pointed stars flanking a palm-branch, rev., lillah | Muhammad | rasul | Allah | Yazid (?), 2.77g, very fine and extremely rare, apparently unpublished The only other mediaeval Islamic coin from the mint of Tadila is an Almoravid dinar dated 493h (sold in these rooms, 9 June 2009, lot 642). Lowick records an apparently related Abbasid dirham struck at the North African mint of al-'Abbasiya in 171h, which also features this distinctive motif of two stars flanking a palm-branch as well as the name of Yazid (Lowick 199). (£200 - 300)