Watch List notes:

Abbasid, al-Mu'tamid (AH 256 -279 / AD 870-892) Imitative AR Dirham. Uncertain mint, AH 265 = AD 879. Contemporary imitation, muling an obverse citing al-Muwaffaq (AH 262-273 / AD 876-887, heir of al-Mu'tamid) with a reverse citing al-Mu'tazz (AH 251-255 / AD 866-869). The mint name, considered by some as Simurg, is otherwise unknown and, now instead suggests Stephen Album, readable as "M S T F R" (ending in "'ayn" or "ghayn"), probably located somewhere in the Caucasus. Apparently unpublished, but cf. Stephen Album, Auction 31, lot 337. 3.61g, 21mm, 11h.

Near Very Fine. Very Rare.

From the collection of a Student.