Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Persia (Pre-Seljuq). Qarakhanids (Western). Mas'ud ibn Hasan, circa AH 556-566 / AD 1161-1171. Dinar (Gold, 21 mm, 3.10 g), citing Qur'an IX, 33, the Abbasid caliph al-Mustanjid billah and Mas'ud as 'al-Khaqan al-'Adil Rukn al Dunya wa al-Din' (in Kufic), Samarqand, AH [5]58 = AD 1162/3. Album 3397. Extremely rare. Slightly clipped and with minor areas of weakness, otherwise, about very fine.


From the collection of Dr. D. Löer, ex Roma XVII, 28 March 2019, 893.