Details
LOT 4045
Umayyad Caliphate AR Dirham. Time of 'Abd al-Malik (b. Marwan I), dated AH 80 (AD 699-700). Astan mint.
Standard Umayyad Shahadah at the centre with marginal stating mint and year / "Umayyad Symbol" (Quran 112) in four lines across fields; "Second Symbol" (Quran 9.33) in margin. Album - (RRR, active for date 89 only); SICA -. Very Fine. Edge chipped. Exceedingly rare mint; apparently unrecorded with this date.(2.52gr, 27mm, 3h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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