Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Persia (Pre-Seljuq). Samanids. Nasr II ibn Ahmad, AH 301-331 / AD 914-943. Dirham (Silver, 30 mm, 2.49 g, 5 h), citing the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadir billah and the Turkish military officer Qarategin, Balkh, AH 317 = AD 929/30. Album 1446. Minor pitting, otherwise, very fine.


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