Watch List notes:

ABBASID, AL-MUTAWAKKIL (232-247h). Dinar, San'a 233h. OBVERSE: In field: la ilaha illa | Allah wahdahu | la sharik lahu | Ja'far. REVERSE: In field: lillah | Muhammad | rasul | Allah | al-Mutawakkil 'ala-'llah. WEIGHT: 3.10g. REFERENCES: Bernardi 156El (date not listed); Bikhazi -. CONDITION: Clipped, but mint and date still complete, otherwise good very fine and apparently unpublished. Ja'far b. Dinar, whose name appears on the obverse of this unpublished coin, was originally appointed to govern Yemen in 224h, but it seems that he never actually went there at this time, sending a deputy in his stead. Deposed in 225h in favour of Itakh al-Turki, Ja'far was eventually reinstated by al-Wathiq in 231h with orders to suppress a local rebellion. Bikhazi relates that 'Ja'far affixed his name to the coinage of his second tenure. But otherwise, the coins were a matter of indifference to him. His mint-master (one Ibn al-Hubab) was given a free hand at the mint. Ja'far himself never troubled to supervise the workings at the mint, with the result that the value of the dinars depreciated markedly and the mint-master made a fortune by taking for himself the surplus of gold...Ja'far, however, maintained his indifference until the increasingly vociferous public complaints forced him to remove Ibn al-Hubab from the mint.' (Bikhazi, p.31).
(2500-3000 GBP)