Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, 'Abbasid Caliphate. temp. Al-Rashid, AH 170-193 / AD 786-809. Dinar (Gold, 17 mm, 3.91 g, 2 h), citing Khalid (posthumously), without mint, struck in Misr, AH 187 = AD 802/3. Bernardi 70. Somewhat clipped and with some graffiti and scratches, otherwise, good very fine.


From a European collection, formed before 2005.

Khalid ibn Barmak was a forebearer of the infuential Barmakid family. He was the first member of this family to convert to Islam.