Watch List notes:

ABBASID, AL-MUQTADIR (295-320h) Dinar, al-Kufa 306h Reverse: small pellet above t of al-Muqtadir Weight: 4.27g Reference: Bernardi 242Jg, citing a single example of this date Slightly ragged edge and with minor marks, good very fine and extremely rare. The obverse die used to strike this extremely rare coin was originally engraved with the mint-name al-Masisa, which was then filled and modified for use at Kufa instead. The re-engraving of dies prepared for one mint but eventually used elsewhere is occasionally encountered on silver dirhams of this period, but is far rarer on gold dinars. It is particularly unusual to have the original mint-name so clearly legible. Interestingly, a unique dinar of al-Masisa 307h (Morton & Eden auction 69, 10 April 2014, lot 70) also bears evidence of the mint-name having been altered on the die. The undertype is less clear on this coin, but al-Kufa would seem to be a possibility.

(2500-3000 GBP)