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Auction XXV  22-23 Sep 2022
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Lot 1244

Estimate: 750 GBP
Price realized: 650 GBP
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Buyids, Rukn al-Dawla AV Dinar. Isbahan mint, AH 354 = AD 965. Kalima in three lines, citing the caliph al-Muti below; mint and date formula in inner margin; Quran XXX, 4-5 in outer margin, at 9 o'clock in tiny lettering, die-engraver's signature: 'amal al-Hasan b. Muhammad / Continuation of kalima, "Rukn al-dawla Abu 'Ala al-Buwayh", in three lines; Quran IX, 33 in outer margin. Album 1546; Treadwell Ha 355G. 4.13g, 25mm, 9h.

Good Very Fine. Extremely Rare.

From the collection of GK;
Ex Morton & Eden, Auction 95-96, 24 October 2018, lot 174.

The engraver al-Hasan b. Muhammad, whose signature appears on this coin, produced dies for a several Buyid mints between the 330s and 360s. His career has been studied in detail by Luke Treadwell in Craftsmen and Coins: Signed Dies in the Iranian World (third to fifth centuries AH).
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