Watch List notes:

ABBASID, AL-MUSTA'IN (248-251h). Dinar, Arminiya 248h. REVERSE: In field: lillah | Muhammad | rasul | Allah | al-Musta'in billah. WEIGHT: 4.16g. REFERENCES: Bernardi – [cf type 160, for which this mint is not recorded]; cf Vardanyan 92 [a dirham of this date]. CONDITION: Double-struck on obverse, otherwise good very fine and excessively rare . Writing in 2011, Vardanyan knew of only three dates for Abbasid dinars of Arminiya issued before 277h. The present coin adds a fourth– 248h- a year previously attested for silver dirhams but not for Abbasid gold.
(5000-6000 GBP)