Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Persia (Pre-Seljuq). Samanids. Isma'il I ibn Ahmad, AH 279-295 / AD 892-907. Dirham (Silver, 27 mm, 3.04 g, 7 h), citing the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tadid billah, al-Shash, AH 289 = AD 905/6. Album 1443. Nicely toned. Minor edge chipping, otherwise, about very fine.


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