Watch List notes:

FATIMID, AL-'AZIZ (365-386h) . Half-dirham, al-Qahira al-Mahrusa 383h. WEIGHT: 1.43g. REFERENCE: Nicol 697. CONDITION: Edge split, very fine or better and extremely rare. Both gold and silver Fatimid coins are known with this extremely rare mint-name, for which this is the earliest known date. Nicol comments, 'The mintname...implies that they were struck in the new palace complex of Cairo, rather than in the old city mint of al-Fustat...They may have been issued to commemorate the commencement of building the city walls or the completion of the palace construction.'
(1000-1500 GBP)