Watch List notes:

ABBASID, AL-MUQTADIR (295-320h) Dinar, Ardabil 316h Obverse field: legends in four lines Weight: 3.73g Reference: Vardanyan 2013, 89 (citing a single specimen); Bernardi - Very fine to good very fine and of the highest rarity. This dinar dates from the brief period between the death of Yusuf b. Diwdad at the end of 315h and the official appointment of his successor, al-Fath b. al-Afshin, as governor of Armenia in the following year. Dinars of this mint and date bearing al-Fath b. al-Afshin's own name are also known (Vardanyan 90; Bernardi 253Ka). Before the discovery of this specimen, the only recorded Abbasid dinar of this mint and date seems to have been the single specimen published by Vasmer in 1927. This coin apparently has an isolated letter ha below the reverse field, which Vardanyan speculated might be the final letter of al-Fath. The present coin does not bear this letter, and while it may perhaps have been struck under al-Fath's authority as Vardanyan suggests, there is nothing to suggest this in its legends which are unimpeachably Abbasid.

(7000-10000 GBP)