Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Islamic Weights. Circa 10-13th centuries. Weight of 5 Mithqāls (Bronze, 17 mm, 20.81 g), a Seljuk or Beylik coin weight in the form of a polyhedron with doubly truncated ends; all faces covered with 'bird's eye' motives. Istanbul -. Silifke -. Some deposits, otherwise, good very fine.


The Mithqāl weight standard was based on the Roman solidus and set to 10/7 of a dirham in Islamic law.