Watch List notes:

Umayyad, dinar, 105h, rev., marginal legend reads bismillah duriba hadha al-dinar –inar (?) sanat khams wa mi'at, with pellet below letter b of duriba, 4.23g (Capernaum Hoard coin 105 (sic), same dies), minor graffiti on both sides and with some tooling above reverse field, additionally with rim knocks and traces of smoothing on edge, otherwise better than very fine overall and an exceedingly rare variety of this rare date. The three extra letters in the reverse margin on this specimen are remarkable. It seems highly unlikely that they could denote a mint-name, although Umayyad dinars with mint-names are known for this year, not only from al-Andalus and Ifriqiya but also with the Ma'din Amir al-Mu'minin bi'l-Hijaz legend on the reverse. On the present coin both triple-letter groups appear to be identical; at first sight the middle letter of the second group looks as though it might be a mim rather than a nun, but this seems to have been caused by a spademark scuffing the coin at this point. It is difficult to suggest a plausible mint-name for Umayyad gold coins which is two letters long and ends with –r or –z; the letters YZ are found in the obverse margin of an issue of Arab-Sasanian drachms struck by 'Abd al-Rahman b. Muhammad (where their presence significance has not been convincingly explained), but it seems exceedingly implausible that there could be any connection here. A far more convincing explanation for the presence of these extra letters is dittography: where a scribe or engraver accidentally repeats a letter or group of letters during copying. This kind of error is particularly likely to happen when the copyist cannot read or does not understand the text they are being asked to reproduce, and its presence on this coin strongly suggests that the engraver could not read the dies he was preparing. Because of this this extra 'word,' the die-engraver evidently found it difficult to fit the rest of the legend in the reverse margin. The letters of mi'at are compressed tightly together but there is nevertheless barely space for it before the b of bismillah. This further supports the view that the extra letters are unintentional, rather than the legend having been carefully spaced and laid out so as to accommodate them
(7000-10000 GBP)