LOT 3670
Anatolia and al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Zangids (Sinjar), Qutb al-Din Muhammad AE Dirham. AH 594-616 (AD 1197-1219).
Sinjar mint. Dated AH 596 (AD 1199/1200). Bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed male Roman-style bust to left, holding spear or sceptre over shoulder and shield; tamgha before, mint name and AH date around / Names and titles of Abbasid caliph al-Nasir and Qutb al-Din Muhammad bin Zengi in five lines across field; name continued to right and left; Zengid tamgha below. Whelan Type II, 228-9; S&S 81.1; Album 1880.2; ICV 1275. Near Very Fine.(9.76gr, 26mm, 5h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 3670
Anatolia and al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Zangids (Sinjar), Qutb al-Din Muhammad AE Dirham.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
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Abbasids. Time of al-Rashid AR Dirham. AH 170-193 (AD 786-809).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Al-Muhammadiyah mint. Legend in three lines and in margin / Legend in four lines and in margin. Album 219.9. 2.74gr, 25mm, 9h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Yaman. Zaydi Imams (Rassids), al-Nasir AR Sudaysi. AH 301-322 (AD 913-934).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Sa'da(?) mint. Undated. Legend in four lines across field; part of Qur'an around / Kalima in three lines across field; mint formula around. Cf. SICA 10, 198-203; cf. Album 1068; ICV 1083. 0.26gr, 13mm, 3h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Abbasid governor of Tabaristan AR Hemidrachm. Time of Al-Mahdi, AH 158-169 (AD 775-785).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Tabaristan mint. Dated PYE 134 = AH 169 (AD 785/6). Crowned and draped bust to right; behind head, GDH ('kingship' in Pahlavi); before head, 'AFZUT' ('may increase' in Pahlavi); in outer margin, APD and NWKW ('excellent' and 'good' in Pahlavi) and 'bakh bakh' ('very fine' in Arabic) / Sasanian fire altar set on three steps, flanked by two attending priests standing facing; to left, date; to right, mint. Album 73; SICA I, -; Walker, Arab-Sassanian, p. 156, O.10. 1.98gr, 24mm, 4h.
Good Very Fine. Very rare.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
