Watch List notes:

ABBASID, AL-QADIR (381-422h). Dirham, Isbahan 406h. OBVERSE: In field: la ilaha illa Allah | Muhammad rasul Allah | al-qadir billah; In margin: single marginal legend with mint/date formula around, three concentric annulets in border. REVERSE: In field: Surat al-Ikhlas in four lines in field (as on Umayyad dirhams). WEIGHT: 3.03g. CONDITION: Traces of mounting in margin (not affecting legends), otherwise almost extremely fine and excessively rare, apparently unpublished. This coin was struck when Isbahan was under the control of the Kakwayhid ruler Muhammad b. Dushmanzar. His name does not appear on this coin, however, which may therefore be regarded as an Abbasid issue because it names the caliph al-Qadir as the sole issuing authority. Dirhams struck at Isbahan in 408h carry almost identical legends to this coin, but with the addition of the Kakwayhid ruler's name Muhammad underneath the Surat al-Ikhlas on the reverse.
(700-1000 GBP)