Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, 'Abbasid Caliphate. temp. Al-Ma'mun, AH 193-218 / AD 809-833. Dinar (Gold, 18 mm, 4.12 g, 1 h), citing al-Sari ibn al-Hakam, governor of Egypt and the military commander Tahir ibn al-Husayn, Misr, AH 204 = AD 819/20. 'Lillah, Tahir' ('For Allah, Tahir' in Kufic) and 'al-Sari'. Rev. 'al-Maghrib' ('the west' in Kufic). Bernardi 94De. Minor marks, otherwise, about very fine.


From a European collection, formed before 2005.