Watch List notes:

Islamic, Abbasid, al-Ma'mun 'abd Allah, (A.H. 194-218) (A.D. 810-833), gold dinar, (4.17 g), citing al-Hasan and Dhu'l-Riyasatayn, below inscriptions on obverse and reverse, no mint name (perhaps Wasit mint in Iraq), dated A.H. 200 = A.D. 815-6, (A.222.13, Bernardi 102, Wilkes 389). Heavy scratch on reverse, otherwise nearly very fine and very scarce.

Ex Dr L.J. Sherwin Collection and previously from W. Fleming, Sydney, 14 June 1973, previously from Sotheby's May - June 1973.