Watch List notes:

BURID OF DAMASCUS, ABAQ (534-549h). Dinar, Dimashq 534h. OBVERSE: In outer margin: Qur'an ix, 33; In inner margin: citing the Seljuq rulers Mas'ud and Sanjar. REVERSE: In outer margin: mint and date, with name Abaq after century; In centre: citing the Abbasid caliph al-imam (sic!) | al-Muqtafi. WEIGHT: 4.68g. REFERENCES: Album A784 var.; ICV 883. CONDITION: Centres a little weak, very fine or better and excessively rare. Abaq was the last of the Burid atabegs of Damascus, and came to power in 534h – the year this coin was issued. His influence evidently extended as far as Busra (almost 100 miles south of Damascus), where he is known to have improved the city's defences in anticipation of a Crusader assault. He was finally expelled from Damascus by Nur al-Din Zangi in 549h.
(3000-4000 GBP)