Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Persia (Pre-Seljuq). Samanids. Isma'il I ibn Ahmad, AH 279-295 / AD 892-907. Dirham (Silver, 29 mm, 3.21 g, 4 h), citing the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tadid billah, al-Shash, AH 287 = AD 900. Album 1443. Nicely toned. Minor areas of weakness and the flan slightly wavy, otherwise, good very fine.


From a Swiss collection of Islamic coins, assembled in the 1970-1980s (with original flip with S. Album's description).