ABBASID, AL-MUQTADIR (295-320h). Donative half-dinar with broad margins, Madinat al-Salam 307h. WEIGHT: 2.19g. REFERENCE: cf Ilisch DI 20 for a full dinar of this date. CONDITION: About extremely fine and excessively rare. This half-dinar measures 21mm in diameter – 5mm smaller than the donative full dinar cited by Ilisch, which strongly suggests that the dies used to strike it were specially prepared for these smaller coins.
(5000-7000 GBP)