| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 29 | Auction date: 24 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 2884 Price realized: 25 CHF (Approx. 28 USD / 26 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. Anonymous issue. Fals (Bronze, 22 mm, 2.48 g, 8 h), Harran, undated. 'Allāh / aḥad Allāh / al-ṣamad' ('Allah is One, Allah is Absolute' in Arabic; Qurʾān 112: 1-2); around, 'lā ilāha illā Allāh waḥdahū lā sharīka lahū' ('There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him' in Arabic). Rev. 'Muḥammad / rasūl / Allāh' ('Muhammad is the messenger of Allah' in Arabic); around, 'bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-fals bi Ḥarrān' ('In the name of Allah. This fals was struck in Harran' in Arabic). Album 192. Rare. Attractive earthen highlights. Areas of weakness, otherwise, very fine. From a European collection, formed before 2005. Starting price: 25 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 29 | Auction date: 24 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 3040 Price realized: 170 CHF (Approx. 193 USD / 178 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: ISLAMIC, 'Abbasid Caliphate. Uncertain period. Fals (Bronze, 21 mm, 1.14 g, 9 h), AH 2nd-4th century / AD 8th-10th century. Within a dotted circle, 'lā ilāha illā / Allāh waḥdahū / lā sharīka lahū' ('There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him' in Arabic); traces of an off-flan marginal legend. Rev. Within a circle, 'mimmā amara bihī / Fīlibus / ibn Yūsuf' ('From that ordered by Filibus [Philip] son of Yusuf' in Arabic); a star below. Apparently unique. Areas of weakness, otherwise, good very fine. Starting price: 25 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28 | Auction date: 9 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 5646 Price realized: 1,600 CHF (Approx. 1,819 USD / 1,689 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: CRUSADERS. Crusader Imitations of Islamic Dirhams. Dirham (Silver, 22 mm, 2.17 g, 8 h), Imitating an Ayyubid dirham of al-Salih Ismaiʿl (AH 635 / AD 1237 and AH 637-643 / AD 1239-1245) from Dimashq (Damascus), but probably struck in ʿAkka (Acre), AH [64]3 = 1245/6. Within a square, citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Mustansir billah (AH 623-640 / AD 1226-1242), 'al-Imām / al-Mustanṣir / billāh Abū Jaʿfar / al-Manṣūr amīr al-muʾminīn' ('Imam al-Mustansir billah Abu Jaʿfar al-Mansur, Commander of the Believers' in Arabic); in the margin, the reference to the prophet Muhammad replaced by the archangel Michael, 'lā ilāha i/llā Allāh wa / Mīkhāʾil ra/sūl Allāh' ('There is no deity but God and Michael is the messenger of God' in Arabic); cross in lower margin. Rev. Within a square, 'al-malik al-Ṣāliḥ / ʿImād al-Dunyā wa al-Dīn / Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Bakr' ('King al-Salih ʿImad al-Dunya wa al-Din Ismaʿil son of Abu Bakr' in Arabic); in the margin, 'bism Allāh / ḍuriba bi Dimashq / sana thalāth wa / ...' ('In the name of Allah. Struck in Dimashq in the year [46]3' in Arabic); cross in upper margin. Bates & Metcalf 51. Malloy 6. Metcalf, Crusades, -. Wäckerlin 223. Very rare. Holed and somewhat rough, otherwise, very fine. From the collection of Dr. D. Löer, ex Leu Web Auction 11, 22-23 February 2020, 2277. This is the rarest and arguably the most interesting of all Crusader imitations of Islamic Dirhams, as it replaces the name of the prophet Muhammad with that of the Archangel Michael. However, the objections of Odo of Chateauroux, Cardinal-Bishop of Tusculum (1244-1273) and Papal legate on the Seventh Crusade to the striking of coins with Islamic inscriptions and datings would eventually lead to their replacement with Christianized types. Starting price: 25 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28 | Auction date: 9 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 6164 Price realized: 190 CHF (Approx. 216 USD / 201 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Mardin). al-Salih Salih I, AH 712-765 / AD 1312-1364. Fals (Bronze, 19 mm, 2.32 g, 6 h), Pictorial type, Mardin, date illegible. Two back-to-back lions with a large sun in between; above, 'lā ilāha illā Allāh Muḥammad rasūl Allāh' ('There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah' in Arabic). Rev. Within a trefoil, name and titles of the king which seems to be 'al-sulṭān al-malik al-Ṣāliḥ' ('Sultan [and] King al-Salih' in Arabic), followed by 'khallada Allāh mulkahū' ('May Allah perpetuate his kingdom' in Arabic); illegible mint and date formula around. Album 1841.2. Extremely rare. Some edge faults, otherwise, fine. From a European collection, formed before 2005. Starting price: 25 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28 | Auction date: 9 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 5950 Price realized: 360 CHF (Approx. 409 USD / 380 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: ISLAMIC, Arabia. Sulayhids. al-Mukarram Ahmad ibn 'Ali, AH 473-484 / AD 1081-1091. Dinar (Gold, 22 mm, 2.41 g, 8 h), ʿAdan (Aden), AH 484 = 1091/2. Within a circle, Shiʿa kalima in a blundered style, 'lā ilāha illā Allāh / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / ʿAlī walī Allāh' ('There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Ali is the friend of Allah' in Arabic); in the margin, mint and date formula in a blundered style. Rev. Within a circle, 'al-malik al-sayyid / al-Mukarram ʿuẓām / al-ʿarab sulṭān / amīr al-muʾminīn' ('The king, the lord, al-Mukarram, the chief of the Arabs, sultan under the Commander of the Believers' in Arabic in a blundered style); in the margin, citing the Fatimid caliph al-Mustansir billah (AH 427-487 / AD 1036-1094), 'al-imām Maʿadd Abū Tamīm al-Mustanṣir billāh amīr al-muʾminīn' ('Imam Maʿadd Abu Tamim al-Mustansir billah, Commander of the Believers' in Arabic in a blundered style). Album 1076. A beautiful, sharply struck and fresh example. Extremely fine. From an old Swiss collection, privately acquired from Athina in the late 1980s. Starting price: 75 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28 | Auction date: 9 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 6169 Price realized: 55 CHF (Approx. 63 USD / 58 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Mardin). al-Muzaffar Da'ud II, AH 769-778 / AD 1368-1376. Fals (Bronze, 15 mm, 1.39 g, 2 h), Mardin, AH 773 = 1371/2. The names of the four Rashidun Caliphs within a circle; in the margin, 'lā ilāha illā Allāh Muḥammad rasūl Allāh' ('There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah' in Arabic). Rev. In the middle, 'al-sulṭān al-malik al-Muẓaffar' ('Sultan [and] King al-Muzaffar' in Arabic); above, 'ḍuriba bi Mārdīn' ('Struck in Mardin' in Arabic); below, 'thalāth wa sabʿīn wa sabʿa miʾa' ('773' in Arabic). Album 1844. Rare. Areas of weakness and with some earthen deposits, otherwise, very fine. From a European collection, formed before 2005. Starting price: 25 CHF |  |
