Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, 'Abbasid Caliphate. temp. Al-Rashid, AH 170-193 / AD 786-809. Dinar (Gold, 17 mm, 4.26 g, 10 h), citing Khalid (posthumously), without mint, struck in Misr, AH 187 = AD 802/3. Bernardi 70. Minor scratch on the obverse and with light marks, otherwise, very fine.


Ex Leu Web Auction 16, 22-24 May 2021, 4411 and previously from a European collection, formed before 2005.

Khalid ibn Barmak was a forebearer of the infuential Barmakid family. He was the first member of this family to convert to Islam.