‡ BATINITE RULER OF ALAMUT, AL-HASAN (557-561h) Fractional dinar, Baldat al-Iqbal Kursi al-Daylam 557h. Reverse: In field: 'Ali wali Allah | al-Mustafa | li-din Allah | Nizar. Weight: 1.54g References: Hamdan/Vardanyan -; cf Morton & Eden auction 92, 26 April 2018, lot 119, same dies. Some marginal weakness, very fine to good very fine and very rare. The word 'hundred' in the date legend is placed above the 'five', possibly because the engraver was short of space after including the epithet Baldat Iqbal, 'City of Goodness,' before the mint-name.
(2500-3000 GBP)