Stephen Album Rare Coins
Auction 14 21-22 September 2012
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TAIFAS ALMORAVIDES: Anonymous, 1146-1155, AV dinar (3.59g), NM, AH[5]44, A-405, VyE-2001/02, Kassis-138, with al-amr kulluhu lillah / la quwwa illa billah below the kalima on obverse, lightly creased, Extremely Fine, RRR.
This somewhat coarsely engraved type was probably issued somewhere in southeastern Spain by local contenders opposed to the rising Kings of Murcia and the Almohades arriving from North Africa. There are numerous spelling errors through this coin, especially in the Qur'anic verse in the obverse margin. The overall calligraphic style resembles some of the dinars minted in the early to mid 540s in and around the Spanish city of Jaén. This date was unknown to Vives y Escudero, and noted by Kassis as a single known specimen in the British Museum, acquired in 1991, which I have not examined (there are no illustrations in the article by Kassis, published in II Jarique in 1988.
Estimate: 2,000-2,500 USD
This somewhat coarsely engraved type was probably issued somewhere in southeastern Spain by local contenders opposed to the rising Kings of Murcia and the Almohades arriving from North Africa. There are numerous spelling errors through this coin, especially in the Qur'anic verse in the obverse margin. The overall calligraphic style resembles some of the dinars minted in the early to mid 540s in and around the Spanish city of Jaén. This date was unknown to Vives y Escudero, and noted by Kassis as a single known specimen in the British Museum, acquired in 1991, which I have not examined (there are no illustrations in the article by Kassis, published in II Jarique in 1988.
Estimate: 2,000-2,500 USD