Watch List notes:

Islamic, Arabia, Sulayhids, local imitation, (c.1000-1050 A.D.), base gold dinar, 22mm, (2.06 g), local imitation, (Album 1075.3, see CNG eSale 361 [lot 62]. Good fine.

Ex Dr L.J. Sherwin Collection from Jean Elsen, list 225 (item 477) 17 July 2003.

Album (p. 120) notes: These imitations may have been struck across the Red Sea in what is now Ethiopia or Eritrea, though most known specimens are said to have Yemeni rather than African provenance.