ISLAMIC, 'Abbasid Caliphate. temp. Al-Rashid, AH 170-193 / AD 786-809. Dinar (Gold, 18 mm, 4.24 g, 6 h), citing Ja'far ibn Yahya Barmaki, without mint, struck in Misr, AH 181 = AD 797/8. Bernardi 69. A few minor scrapes and with marks, otherwise, good very fine.
From a European collection, formed before 2005.
Ja'far ibn Yahya Barmaki (767-803) was a Persian vizier of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid. He was executed in 803, allegedly for having an affair with al-Rashid's sister, Abbasa.