Ilkhanids, Ghazan Mahmud I AV Heavy Dinar. Qays mint, double dated on both sides, AH 701 = AD 1302. Kalima in three lines within a polylobe, mint below; date in margins / Name and titles in Uighur script, Phags-Pa script, and Kufic script; date around. Album 2170; Diler 281. 10.21g, 26mm, 10h.
Good Very Fine. Very Rare.
From the collection of GK;
Ex Morton & Eden, Auction 95-96, 24 October 2018, lot 183 (hammer: GBP 1,500).
This is one of the rarest Ilkhanids mints. Qays, the modern day island of Kish in the Persian Gulf, is best known from dinars of Abu Sa'id and some very rare dinars of Ghazan Mahmud like this coin.