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Auction XXVII  22-23 Mar 2023
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Lot 884

Estimate: 500 GBP
Price realized: 400 GBP
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Aghlabids, Ziyadat Allah III AV Dinar. Uncertain Mint, AH 291 = AD 904. First part of Kalima in three lines, "Khattab" below (his favourite page-boy); Qur'an IX, 33 around / Continuation of Kalima in three lines, "ghalab" above, "Ziyadat Allah" below; date formula around. Album 452; Bernardi 146; al-'Ush 150 (only 1 reported). 4.05g, 18mm, 3h.

Very Fine. Very Rare.

Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 60, 1 August 2019, lot 1163.

Ziyadat Allah was the last Aghlabid amir, when challenged by the Fatimid partisan 'Abd Allah al-Shi'i in the year AH 296, he fled the country and sought refuge in the east. This is the first year in which the name Khattab, his favourite page-boy, appears.
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