![Group of Twenty [20] AR Coins of Ottoman Empire.](https://timelineauctions.com/upload/images/items/235178.jpg "Group of Twenty [20] AR Coins of Ottoman Empire.")
LOT 3689
Group of Twenty [20] AR Coins of Ottoman Empire. Circa 14th-16th century AD.
Various rulers. Condition as seen.(25.56gr total.).
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Time of the Rashidun ΑΕ Fals. Circa AH 37-55 (AD 658-675).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Pseudo-Byzantine type. Type E. Struck circa AD 658-664. Imperial Byzantine figure (Constans II) standing facing, holding cross-tipped staff and globus cruciger; Ο above globus / Large m; cross above with curved ornaments flanking; [A] N [...] to left, n Є O to right; illegible inscription in exergue; c/ms: bld ('bi-ludd') within incuse circle. For coin: cf. SICA 1, 518 (for type); for c/m: SICA 1, p. 90. 3.77gr, 24mm, 8h.
Fine. Rare.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
It is very possible that these coins, which bear the 'bld' countermark, were issued in the city of Diospolis (ΔΙΟΣΠΟΛΙΣ, Ludd) and superseded the earlier types of the same city. -
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Group of Twenty [20] AR Coins of Ottoman Empire. Circa 14th-16th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Various rulers. 25.56gr total.
Condition as seen.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
![Group of Five [5] Islamic and Sasanian AR Coins.](https://timelineauctions.com/upload/images/items/small/235181-s.jpg)
Group of Five [5] Islamic and Sasanian AR Coins. 6th-12th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Various rulers. 14.77gr total.
Condition as seen.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
