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Ilkhanids, Uljaytu Donative AV 10 Dinars. Madinat al-salam (Baghdād) mint, AH 716 = AD 1316. Duriba fī, dawlat al-mawlà al-sulṭān, al-a'ẓam mālik riqāb, al-imām ghayāth al-dunyā wa-l-dīn, Ūlujāytū sulṭān Muḥammad, khallada Allāh mulkahu, within the central heptafoil; ḍuriba, bi-madīnat al-salām, Baghdād, sanat sitt, 'ashr wa, saba' mi'a, in inner margin; Quran IX, 112 in outer margin / Ṣallà Allāh lā ilāh illā Allāh al-malik al-ḥaqq al-mubīn Muḥammad rasūl Allāh al-ṣādiq al-wa'd al-amīn 'Alī wālī Allāh ṣallà Allāh 'alayhi, within the central hexafoil; outer margin citing the the Twelve Shi'te Imams . Unpublished: cf. Album's Type C. 42.48g, 38mm, 3h.
Extremely Fine; minor areas of weakness. Unique and unpublished, probably the rarest Ilkhanid coin ever seen.
From the inventory of a German dealer;
Ex Maison Palombo, Auction 18, 17 November 2019, lot 86 (hammer: CHF 76,000).
This donative coin of 10 Dinars is one of the most exquisite examples of Uljaitu's coinage, a demonstration of the authority and legitimacy of the dynasty. This exceptionally heavy gold piece, struck in Baghdad, was perhaps issued as a gift on the occasion of important ceremonies. The Ilkhan sultan Uljaytu converted to Shi'ism in AH 709 (AD 1309) and thereafter used Shi'ite inscriptions rather than the Uighur script used by his processor Ghazan Mahmud. Uljaitu was also the first to name the twelve Shi'ite Imams on his coins, a tradition continued by many later Shi'ite rulers.
Extremely Fine; minor areas of weakness. Unique and unpublished, probably the rarest Ilkhanid coin ever seen.
From the inventory of a German dealer;
Ex Maison Palombo, Auction 18, 17 November 2019, lot 86 (hammer: CHF 76,000).
This donative coin of 10 Dinars is one of the most exquisite examples of Uljaitu's coinage, a demonstration of the authority and legitimacy of the dynasty. This exceptionally heavy gold piece, struck in Baghdad, was perhaps issued as a gift on the occasion of important ceremonies. The Ilkhan sultan Uljaytu converted to Shi'ism in AH 709 (AD 1309) and thereafter used Shi'ite inscriptions rather than the Uighur script used by his processor Ghazan Mahmud. Uljaitu was also the first to name the twelve Shi'ite Imams on his coins, a tradition continued by many later Shi'ite rulers.