Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 557Auction date: 6 March 2024
Lot number: 519

Price realized: 500 USD   (Approx. 460 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Great Mongols. Chingiz (Genghis). AH 602-624 / AD 1206-1227. AR Dirham (16mm, 2.99 g, 6h). Citing Abbasid caliph a1-Nasir. Ghazna (Ghazni) mint. Struck circa AH 617/8 (AD 1221/2). Kufic legend: al-adil | al-a'zam | Chingiz qa'an (The just | The great | Chingiz Khan) / Kufic legend: al-Nasir | al-Din Allah | amir al-mu'minin (al-Nasir | al-Din Allah | Commander of the faithful). Zeno dies A3/B2; Nyamaa 2; Tye 327; SICA 9, 1007 (same dies); SNA Tübingen XIVd, 646 (same dies); Album 1967; ICV 1941. Iridescent toning, deposits, surface crystallization. VF.

From the Norman Frank Collection.


Estimate: 200 USD

Match 1:
Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 551Auction date: 29 November 2023
Lot number: 673

Price realized: 700 USD   (Approx. 640 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Great Mongols. Chingiz (Genghis). AH 602-624 / AD 1206-1227. AR Dirham (16mm, 3.02 g, 3h). Citing Abbasid caliph a1-Nasir. Ghazna (Ghazni) mint. Struck circa AH 617/8 (AD 1221/2). Kufic legend: al-adil | al-a'zam | Chingiz qa'an (The just | The great | Chingiz Khan) / Kufic legend: al-Nasir | al-Din Allah | amir al-mu'minin (al-Nasir | al-Din Allah | Commander of the faithful). Zeno dies A3/B2; Nyamaa 2; Tye 327; SICA 9, 1007 (same dies); SNA Tübingen XIVd, 646 (same dies); Album 1967; ICV 1941. Lightly toned, deposits, slight roughness, areas of peripheral weaknesw. VF.


Estimate: 300 USD

Match 2:
Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXVIIAuction date: 9 January 2024
Lot number: 981

Price realized: 7,500 USD   (Approx. 6,869 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Great Mongols. Chingiz (Genghis). AH 602-624 / AD 1206-1227. AV Dinar (23.5mm, 6.54 g, 6h). Ghazna (Ghazni) mint. Dated AH [6]18 (AD 1221/2). Kalima and name of Abbasid caliph in four lines, floral ornament above and to left; Umayyad "Second Symbol" (al-Quran Sura 9:33) in outer margin / Name and titles of Chingiz Khan in four lines, floral ornament to left and right; mint formula and AH date in outer margin. Spengler 16-18; CNR XXI, 1 (Spring 1996), 245-30-35; Album 1964; ICV 1940. Lightly toned, deposits, scrapes and scratches, areas of typical flat strike. VF. Rare with name of Chingiz Khan visible.


Estimate: 1500 USD

Match 3:
Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 29Auction date: 24 February 2024
Lot number: 3226

Price realized: 600 CHF   (Approx. 681 USD / 629 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


ISLAMIC, Mongols. Great Khans. Chingiz (Genghis), AH 602-624 / AD 1206-1227. Dirham (Silver, 15 mm, 2.78 g, 3 h), Ghazna type. Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Nasir li-din Allah (AH 575-622 / AD 1180-1225) within a circle, 'al-Nāṣir / li-dīn Allāh / amīr al-muʾminīn' ('al-Nasir li-din Allah, Commander of the Believers' in Arabic). Rev. Within a circle, 'al-ʿādil / al-aʿẓam / Jinkiz Khān' ('The just [and] the supreme Chingiz Khan' in Arabic). Album 1967. Rare. Very fine.


From a European collection, formed before 2005.

Starting price: 25 CHF

Match 4:
Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28Auction date: 9 December 2023
Lot number: 6181

Price realized: 60 CHF   (Approx. 68 USD / 63 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


ISLAMIC, Mongols. Great Khans. temp. Chingiz (Genghis), AH 602-624 / AD 1206-1227. Dirham (Bronze, 41 mm, 7.00 g, 11 h). Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Nasir li-din Allah (AH 575-622 / AD 1180-1225) on both sides. Within two concentric circles, 'lā ilāha illā / Allāh Muḥammad / rasūl Allāh a/l-Nāṣir li-dīn / Allāh' ('There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. al-Nasir li-din Allah' in Arabic); illegible marginal legend. Rev. Within two concentric circles, 'al-imām al-a/ʿẓam al-Nā/ṣir li-dīn Allāh' ('The Supreme Imam al-Nasir li-din Allah' in Arabic); illegible marginal legend. Zeno 270827. Areas of weakness and with some deposits, otherwise, good fine.

Starting price: 25 CHF

Match 5:
Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 29Auction date: 24 February 2024
Lot number: 3227

Price realized: 320 CHF   (Approx. 363 USD / 336 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


ISLAMIC, Mongols. Great Khans. temp. Chingiz (Genghis), AH 602-624 / AD 1206-1227. Dinar (Electrum, 23 mm, 3.38 g, 7 h), anonymous type with Kalima on the obverse and reverse, possibly Bukhara, without date. Kalima and mint name. Rev. Citing the Abbasid caliph al-Nasir li-din Allah as al-Imam al-a'zam ('supreme Imam' in Arabic). Album A1967. The flan slightly wavy and with three flan cracks, otherwise, very fine.


Ex The New York Sale 53, 14 January 2021, 3269 and Dmitry Markov 2, 17 February 1995, 42.

Starting price: 75 CHF