Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Caucasus (Pre-Seljuq). Shaddadid. Abu Nasr Iskandar, AH 485-499 / AD 1092-1105. Fals (Bronze, 24 mm, 10.21 g, 10 h), citing Amir Nasr, Dvin (Armenia). Sunface in center; around, legend in Kufic. Rev. Legend in Kufic within circle and in outer margin. A. Akopyan: Dvin in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. City history in the light of new numismatic materials, p. 1039, type 16. Struck somewhat off center and with minor corrosion, otherwise, about very fine.


A. Akopyan identifies the Amir Nasr mentioned on our coin as Abu Nasr Iskandar Shaddadid, the brother of Manuchihr ibn Shawur I.