Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, 'Abbasid Caliphate. temp. Al-Mansur, AH 136-158 / AD 754-775. Fals (Bronze, 23 mm, 4.31 g), citing the governor 'Abd al-Malik ibn Yahya, Junday Sabur, AH 151 = AD 768/9. Rev. Countermark in the field to left reading: 'al-Amir al-Mahdi / Akramah Allah' ('the Amir al-Mahdi, may God honor him' in Kufic). Album J327. Extremely rare. Minor corrosion and with light areas of weakness, otherwise, about very fine.


From the collection of Dr. D. Löer, ex Album 33, 17 January 2019, 465.