Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Persia (Pre-Seljuq). Samanids. 'Abd al-Malik I ibn Nuh, AH 343-350 / AD 954-961. Dinar (Gold, 23 mm, 3.26 g, 6 h), Nishapur, AH 344 = AD 955/6. Album 1460. An attractive example of this interesting issue. Good very fine.


Ex Stephen Album 9, 11 December 2010, 260.

This unusual type, which omits the name of the Abbasid caliph, was only struck in AH 344.