Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Egypt & Syria (Pre-Fatimid). Tulunids. Ahmad ibn Tulun, AH 254-270 / AD 868-884. Fals (Bronze, 23 mm, 3.08 g, 9 h), citing the Tulunid ruler Ahmad ibn Tulun, the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tamid and an uncertain governor as 'Mawla Amir al-Mu'minin' ('Friend of the Commander of the Faithful' in Kufic), Thughur al-Shâmiya, AH 264 = AD 877/8. 'Ahmad ibn Tulun' in two lines; below, dynastic tamgha of the Tulunids. Rev. First half of the Kalima and the name of the caliph al-Mu'tamid. Album 663.3. Very rare. A few minor deposits, otherwise, about very fine.


From a European collection, acquired before 2021.