Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Persia (Post-Mongol). Safavids. Sulayman II (Sayyid Muhammad). AH 1163 / AD 1750. AV Double Mohur (28mm, 21.80 g, 4h). Type A. Mashhad mint. Undated issue. Shahada and 'ali walī Allah ('Ali [is] the authority of Allah) in five lines; all within linear circular border; in outer margin, the names of the twelve Shi'ite imams / zarb mashhad shah-e 'adl gostar soleyman-e thani zad az lotf-e haqq sekke-ye kamrani (struck Mashhad, the shah who dispenses justice, Sulayman the second, by the grace of God struck the coins of prosperity) in Persian. Farahbakhsh 180-1 = Rabino di Borgomale pl. 11, 287; SICA 9, –; Album 2699; KM 454; Friedberg 17c; Spink 226 (2 December 2014), lot 546 (same dies). Good VF, flan flaw on edge. Extremely rare.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Stephen Album, January 1984.