Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Arabia. Sulayhids. 'Arwa bint Ahmad, AH 484-532 / AD 1091-1137. 1/2 Dinar (Gold, 19 mm, 0.87 g, 6 h), Dhu Jibla, blundered date. SICA X, 67ff. The flan slightly wavy and the reverse struck from a somewhat corroded die, otherwise, very fine.


Queen Arwa ibn Ahmad was the first woman to bear the title Hujjah ('proof' [of God]), which in the Shia is an person with a very close relationship to God.