Watch List notes:

‡ ILKHANID, GHAZAN MAHMUD (694-703h) Heavy dinar, Baghdad 701h. Weight: 12.99g. Reference: Diler 277. Some marginal weakness, very fine or better and very rare. Diler (p.22) records that Ghazan Mahmud fixed the canonical weight of a gold dinar at circa 4.32g. While it may be misleading to speak of 'denominations' within Ilkhanid gold coins of this period, surviving specimens of this type all appear to have been carefully struck to the same standard - between 12.82 and 12.98g – and were surely intended as coins of three dinars weight. Lighter Ilkhanid gold coins were also struck in Baghdad during this year but are only known from less ornate dies, which are smaller in diameter and carry shorter legends (Diler 281 and 282). It therefore seems that these handsome, heavy three-dinar pieces were regarded as a special issue, probably made for presentation purposes.
(2000-3000 GBP)