Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Persia (Pre-Seljuq). Samanids. Ahmad II ibn Ismail, AH 295-301 / AD 907-914. Dirham (Silver, 28 mm, 2.77 g, 4 h), citing the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadir billah, al-Shash, AH 297 = AD 909/10. Album 1446. A beautifully toned and unusually complete example. Good very fine.


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