| Baldwin's Auctions Ltd > Auction C24003 | Auction date: 19 March 2024 |
| Lot number: 22 Price realized: 40 GBP (Approx. 51 USD / 47 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Umayyad, anonymous issue, bronze Fals, c. 8th - 9th century AD, struck in North Africa or Spain, without mint name, 3.75g (Walker 699). Good Very Fine, rare. Estimate: 40 - 60 GBP |  |
Match 1:
| Roma Numismatics Ltd. > E-Sale 116 | Auction date: 18 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 1624 Price realized: Unsold | |
| Lot description: A Collection of 50 Abbasid Æ Fulus. Lot includes: 1) Abbasids, time of al-Ma'mun Æ Fals Samarqand mint, AH 205 = AD 821. First part of Kalima in three lines; date formula around / Continuation of kalima in three lines; citing governor Ghassan ibn 'Abbad. Album 334; Shamma p. 335, 6. Good Fine. Very Rare. 2) Abbasids, Anonymous time of Al-Mansur (?) Æ Fals. No mint, undated, citing Hamid [bin Quhatiba]?. Allah in the centre; kalima around / Hamid in the centre. Album 334E; Shamma -. Good Fine. Very Rare. 3) Abbasids, time of al-Ma'mun Æ Fals. Al-Shash mint, AH 204 = AD 820. First part of Kalima in three lines, citing governor Ghassan [ibn 'Abbad]; Quran IX, 33 around / Continuation of kalima in three lines; mint and date formula around. Album 334E; Shamma -; SICA II, -. About Very Fine. Very Rare. 4) Abbasids, Al-Mahdi Æ Fals. Kazirun mint, AH 167 = AD 784. Mint in two lines, citing Rabi' below / Caliph's name and title in three lines, citing Prefect Nusayr below; date formula around. Album A328; Shamma -; Cf. SICA II, 1242 (dated AH 166). About Very Fine. Extremely Rare. 5) Abbasids, time of Al-Amin Æ Fals. Sijistan mint, AH 194 = AD 810. First part of Kalima in three lines; mint and date formula around / Large six-pointed star on petaled flower; Quran IX, 33 around. Album 335. Cf. Shamma p. 290, 11; SICA II, 1499. Good Fine. Rare. 6) Abbasids, time of Al-Rashid Æ Fals. Sijistan mint, AH 178 = AD 795. First part of Kalima in three lines; mint and date around / Continuation of kalima in three lines; citing the governor Yazid below. Album 335. Shamma p. 289, 7; SICA II, 1498. Good Fine. Rare. 7) Abbasids, Anonymous time of Al-Mansur Æ Fals. Jurjan mint, AH 145 = AD 763. First part of Kalima in three lines / Continuation of kalima in three lines; mint and date formula around. Album 327; Shamma p. 303, 5. Fine. Scarce. 8) Abbasids, Anonymous time of Al-Mansur Æ Fals. Jurjan mint, AH 139 = AD 757. First part of Kalima in three lines / Continuation of kalima in two lines divided by two stars and circle; mint and date formula around. Album 327; Shamma p. 302, 1. Good Fine; edge chipped. Scarce. 9) Abbasids, time of Al-Rashid Æ Fals. Jurjan mint, AH 184 = AD 800. First part of Kalima in three lines; citing governor al-Husayn ibn Ali and Isma'il ibn Mas'ub / Continuation of kalima in three lines; "Salam" (?) split above and below; mint and date formula around. Album 327; Shamma p. 304, 12. Good Fine. Rare. 10) Abbasids, Anonymous time of Al-Mansur Æ Fals. Jurjan mint, AH 151 = AD 769. First part of Kalima in three lines / Continuation of kalima in three lines; mint and date formula around. Album 327; Shamma p. 303, 7. Fine. Scarce. 11) Abbasids, time of Al-Rashid Æ Fals. Jurjan mint, AH 190 = AD 806. First part of Kalima in three lines; mint and date formula around / Continuation of kalima in three lines; citing the Abbasid governor Isma'il ibn Musa and the Abbasid official Ya'qub ibn Ishaq. Album 327; Shamma p. 304, 13. Good Fine. Rare. 12) Abbasids, Anonymous time of Al-Mansur Æ Fals. Al-Muhammadiya mint, AH 152 = AD 770. First part of Kalima in three lines; mint and date formula around / Citing the caliph al-Mahdi as al-khalifa; Quran IX, 33 around. Album 329; Shamma p. 206, 5. About Very Fine. Scarce. 13) Abbasids, Anonymous time of Al-Mansur Æ Fals. Balkh mint, AH 142 = AD 760. First part of Kalima in three lines; mint and date formula around / Continuation of kalima in three lines; citing Governor al-Hasan Ibn Himran around. Album 319; Shamma p. 307, 1. Very Fine; area of weakness. Scarce. 14) Abbasids, Anonymous time of Al-Mansur Æ Fals. Balkh mint, AH 149 = AD 767. First part of Kalima in three lines; mint and date formula around / Continuation of kalima in two lines; citing Governor Harb bin Ziyad and the heir al-Mahdi around. Album 319; Shamma p. 312, 2. Very Fine. Scarce. 15) Abbasids, Anonymous time of Al-Rashid Æ Fals. Balkh mint, AH 187 = AD 803. First part of Kalima in three lines, citing 'Issa below; mint and date formula around / Continuation of kalima in three lines; Quran IX, 33 around. Album 319; Shamma p. 312, 6. About Very Fine. Scarce. 16) Abbasids, Anonymous time of Al-Rashid Æ Fals. Balkh mint, AH 182 = AD 798. First part of Kalima in three lines; mint and date formula around / Continuation of kalima in three lines; Quran IX, 33 around. Album 319; Shamma p. 312, 3. About Very Fine. 17) Abbasids, time of Al-Mahdi Æ Fals. Kurat al-Mahdiya min Fars mint, AH 161 = AD 788. First part of Kalima in three lines; date formula around / Continuation of kalima in three lines, citing the city name "Jur" above; mint formula around. Album 328; Shamma p. 227, 1. About Very Fine. Rare. 18) Abbasids, Anonymous time of Al-Mansur Æ Fals. Bukhara mint, AH 143 = AD 761. First part of Kalima in three lines; mint and date formula around / Continuation of kalima in three lines; citing the governor al-'Ashath and the caliphal heir al-Mahdi. Album 320; Shamma p. 327, 3. Good Very Fine. Rare. 19) Abbasids, Anonymous time of Al-Mansur Æ Fals. Bukhara mint, AH 148 = AD 766. First part of Kalima in three lines, star below; mint and date formula around / Continuation of kalima in three lines, tamgha similar to the later Zangids tamgha below; citing the governor Mu'abad and the caliphal heir al-Mahdi. Album 320; Shamma p. 328, 6. About Very Fine. Rare. 20) Abbasids, Anonymous time of Al-Mansur Æ Fals. Bukhara mint, AH 151 = AD 769. First part of Kalima in three lines, star below; mint and date formula around / Continuation of kalima in two lines divided by ornament between them; citing the governor al-Junayd b. Khalid and the caliphal heir al-Mahdi. Album 320; Shamma p. 328, 7. Very Fine; light oxidation. Rare. 21) Abbasids, time Al-Rashid Æ Fals. Bukhara mint, AH 185 = AH 801. First part of Kalima in three lines; date formula around / Continuation of kalima in three lines, "Adl" below; citing Ali' ibn Isa and Sa'id Ja'far around. Abum 320; Shamma p. 329, 12. Very Fine. Rare. 22) Abbasids, time of Al-Mahdi Æ Fals. Bukhara mint, AH 160 = AD 787. "Blessing Musa" as califal heir; First part of Kalima in three lines; date formula around / Continuation of kalima in three lines; citing the governor Abdullah bin Qudayd and 'Abd al-Malik bin Yazid around. Album 320; Shamma p. 329, 9. Very Fine. Rare. 23) Abbasids, time Al-Rashid Æ Fals. Bukhara mint, AH 190 = AH 806. First part of Kalima in three lines; date formula around / Continuation of kalima in three lines; citing governor al-Hakim ibn Sa'id. Abum 320; Shamma p. 330, 12. Very Fine. Rare. 24) Abbasids, Anonymous time of Al-Mansur Æ Fals. Samarqand mint, AH 144 = AD 762. First part of Kalima in three lines; mint and date formula around within a dotted circle / Continuation of kalima in three lines, Tamgha of Samarqand below; citing the governor al-'Ashath and the caliphal heir al-Mahdi within a dotted circle. Album 334; Shamma p. 334, 2. About Very Fine. Very Rare. 25) Abbasids, time Al-Rashid Æ Fals. Samarqand mint, AH 172 = AH 790. First part of Kalima in three lines; date formula around / Continuation of kalima in three lines, "Adl" below; citing Jafar bin Muhammad and Masa`da b. Zuhayr. Album 334; Shamma, p.334, 4. Very Rare. 26) Abbasids, Anonymous time of Al-Mansur Æ Fals. Samarqand mint, AH 153 = AD 771. First part of Kalima in three lines; citing governor Hamza bin 'Amru around / Continuation of kalima in three lines, mint and date formula around. Album 334; Shamma p. 334, 3. About Very Fine. Very Rare. 27) Abbasids, Anonymous time of Al-Mansur Æ Fals of 1/60 dirham. Al-Shash mint, AH 149 = AD 767. First part of Kalima in three lines; mint and date formula around within a dotted circle / Continuation of kalima in three lines; citing Sa'îd ibn Yahyâ and denomination of 1/60 dirham within a dotted circle. Album 334E; Shamma -; SICA II, -. Good Fine. Very Rare. 28) Abbasids, al-Mahdi Æ Fals. Madinat al-Salam mint, AH 166 = AD 783. First part of Kalima in three lines; mint and date formula around / Continuation of kalima in three lines; citing the caliph al-Mahdi Muhammad around. Album 307.1; Shamma p. 40, 16. Good Fine; clipped. 29) Abbasids, al-Mansur Æ Fals. Madinat al-Salam mint, AH 157 = AD 774. First part of Kalima in three lines; mint and date formula around / Continuation of kalima in three lines, " 'Adl " below; citing the caliph Abd Allah al-Mansur around. Album 307.1; Shamma p. 38, 7. Good Fine. Scarce. 30) Abbasids, al-Mahdi Æ Fals. Al-Kufa mint, AH 167 = AD 784. First part of Kalima in three lines / Continuation of kalima in three lines; " baraka" below; citing the caliph al-Mahdi, mint and date formula around. Album 306; Shamma p. 63, 20. About Very Fine. 31) Abbasids, al-Mahdi Æ Fals. Al-Kufa mint, AH 163 = AD 780. First part of Kalima in three lines / Continuation of kalima in three lines; " baraka" below; citing the caliph al-Mahdi, mint and date formula around. Album 306; Shamma p. 61, 13; Lowick 489. About Very Fine. 32) Abbasids, Anonymous time of al-Mutawakkil Æ Fals. Dimashq mint, AH 234 = AD 849. First part of Kalima in three lines; mint and date formula around / Continuation of kalima in three lines, "al-hamd" below; Quran IX, 33 around. Album 284; Shamma p. 86, 13. About Very Fine; clipped. Scarce. 33) Abbasids, al-Rashid Æ Fals. Wasit mint, AH 187 = AD 803. First part of Kalima in three lines; mint and date formula around / Continuation of kalima, tasliya in three lines, citing " Sa'id" below; citing the heir al-Amir around. Album 313; Shamma p. 66, 13. About Very Fine. Very Rare. 34) Abbasids, Anonymous time of al-Saffah Æ Fals. Halab mint, AH 135 = AD 754. First part of Kalima in three lines; mint and date formula around / Continuation of kalima in three lines; Quran IX, 33 around. Album 286; Shamma p. 89, 3. About Very Fine. 35) Abbasids, Uncertain period time of al-Saffah to al-Amin in the name of Amr ibn Isa and Abd-Allah ibn Zayd Æ Fals. Hims mint, undated, circa AH 132-199 = AD 749-813. First part of Kalima in three lines; mint formula around citing Abd-Allah ibn Zayd / Continuation of kalima in three lines, citing Amr ibn Isa. Album 287; Shamma p. 96, 2. About Very Fine. 36) Abbasids, time of Al-Mansur Æ Fals. Qinnasrin mint, AH 157 = AD 774. First part of Kalima in three lines; " 'ala yaday Ahmad " below; mint and date formula around / Continuation of kalima in three lines, "bakh - bakh" below; citing Ahmad around. Album 290; Shamma p. 111, 4. Very Fine. 37) Abbasids, Al-Mansur Æ Fals. Kahazanat Halab (Treasury of Halab) mint, AH 146 = AD 764. First part of Kalima in three lines; citing Salih ibn Ali around / Continuation of kalima in three lines; mint and date formula around. Album 289; Shamma p. 90, 9. About Very Fine. Rare. 38) Abbasids, Uncertain period time of Rustam ibn Bardaw, governor of Tarsus Æ Fals. Tarsus mint, undated, circa AH 240-330 = AD 850-940. First part of Kalima in three lines / Citing the governor of Tarsus Rustam ibn Bardaw in four lines. Album 299; Shamma p. 100, 11. Fine. Very Rare. 39) Abbasids, time of Al-Rashid Æ Fals. Thaghr al-Masisa ('The Frontier town of al-Masisa') mint, undated, AH 170-193 = AD 786-809. First part of Kalima in three lines / Continuation of kalima in three lines, "bi-Taghr _ al-Masisa" split above and below. Album 298; Shamma -; SICA II, 1591. About Very Fine. Rare. Al-Masisa, the ancient city of Mopsos-Mopsuestia in Cilicia, was located at the northern frontier of the Abbasid empire in the 2nd century AH. 40) Abbasids, time of Al-Mansur Æ Fals struck under Governor al-'Abbas ibn Muhammad. Al-Jazira mint, undated, struck circa AH 130-140 = AD 750-760. Kalima in three lines; citing al-'Abbas ibn Muhammad / Continuation of kalima in three lines; mint formula around. Album 304; Shamma p. 145, 1. About Very Fine. 41) Abbasids, Uncertain period time of Muhammad ibn Musa, Tulunid governor of Cilicia Æ Cast Fals. (Tarsus) mint, undated, circa AH 280 = AD 893. Kalima in three lines; below, 'fard' (excellent) / "ordered by al-Amir Muhammad ibn Musa" in three lines. Album 300 (cf. Album 669 for the Tulunid issue); Shamma p. 99, 8. Fine. Very Rare. 42) Abbasids, time of Al-Mansur Æ Fals. al-Yazidiya mint, AH 149 = AD 767. First part of Kalima in three lines / Continuation of kalima in three lines; mint and date formula around. Album 313K. Shamma -; SICA II, -; Vardanyan 2016, 40. Very Fine. Extremely Rare. al-Yazidiya is a mint located probably in Armenia. 43) Abbasids, time of Al-Mansur Æ Fals. Al-Bab mint, AH 153 = AD 773. First part of Kalima in three lines; mint and date formula around / Citing caliphal heir apparent al-Mahdi Muhammad in three lines. Album A315; Shamma p. 236, 1. About Very Fine. Extremely Rare. 44) Abbasids, time of Al-Mansur Æ Fals, struck under Governor of Armenia Yazid ibn Asid ibn Zafir al-Sulami. Bardha'a (in Armenia), AH 142 = AD 760. First part of Kalima in two lines; Citing the governor Yazid ibn Asid around / Continuation of kalima in three lines. Album 315. Shamma -; SICA II, -. About Very Fine. Very Rare. Yazid ibn Asid as-Sulami was a member of the Banu Sulaym tribe, which had participated in the Muslim conquest of Armenia and been settled by the caliphs in the western Armenian borderlands with the Byzantine Empire. 45) Abbasids, time of Al-Mansur Æ Fals. al-Yazidiya mint, AH 150 = AD 768. First part of Kalima in three lines/ Continuation of kalima in three lines; mint and date formula around. Album 313K. Shamma -; SICA II, 1628; Vardanyan 2016, 40. Good Fine. Very Rare. al-Yazidiya is a mint located probably in Armenia. 46) Abbasids, Al-Mahdi Æ Fals. Sabur mint, AH 167 = AD 784. Caliph's name and title, within elaborate border in margin / Mint and date in four lines; citing the governor Nusayr around. Album 333; Shamma p. 281, 9. About Very Fine. Scarce. 47) Abbasids, time of Al-Mahdi Æ Fals, struck under Governor of Armenia Yazid ibn Asid ibn Zafir al-Sulami. Bardha'a (in Armenia), AH 159 = AD 776. First part of Kalima in two lines; Citing the governor Yazid ibn Asid around / Continuation of kalima in three lines. Album 315. Shamma -; SICA II, -. Vardanyan 2016, 248. Very Fine. Very Rare. Yazid ibn Asid as-Sulami was a member of the Banu Sulaym tribe, which had participated in the Muslim conquest of Armenia and been settled by the caliphs in the western Armenian borderlands with the Byzantine Empire. 48) Abbasids, time of al-Rashid Æ fals. Fasa mint, AH 182 = AD 798. First part of Kalima in three lines, Muhammad below; citing Muhammad b. Yahya al-Barmaki around / Continuation of kalima in three lines; mint and date formula around, " Barmaki" below. Album 321; Shamma p.273, 3. Very Fine. Very Rare. 49) Abbasids, time of Al-Saffah Æ Fals. Ardashir Khurra mint, AH 134 = AD 752. First part of Kalima in three lines / Continuation of kalima in three lines; mint and date formula around. Album 317; Shamma p. 265, 2. About Very Fine. Very Rare. 50) Abbasids, Al-Mahdi Æ Fals. Istakhr mint, AH 167 = AD 784. First part of Kalima in three lines / Caliph's name and title in three lines, citing the governor al-Rabi below; mint and date around. Album A216; Shamma p. 269, 9. Good Very Fine. Scarce. Lot sold as seen – no returns. Estimate: 1500 GBP |  |
Match 2:
| Classical Numismatic Group > Islamic Auction 5 | Auction date: 18 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 8 Price realized: Unsold | |
| Lot description: Pre-reform issues, Arab-Armenian. Hormizd IV type. After AH 72 / AD 692. AR Drachm (30.2mm, 2.78 g, 3h). Without mint-name (Sears Mint A - Barda'a or al-Bab?). Year '6' (struck circa AH 73-74 AD 692-694). Obverse margin: bismillah / la ilaha illa (sic, with Allah omitted) / Muhammad ra- / sul Allah Obverse field: Sasanian bust right with name of Hormizd before / Reverse: Fire-altar and attendants with vestigial date to left and denomination ZWZWN to right; rabbi Allah in margin at 3h. Album M97; cf. Sears, Transitional Drahms of the Umayyad North 1-2. Good VF for issue. Excessively rare. The legends on this piece are slightly blundered with Allah missing from the second quadrant of the obverse margin and the same word misspelled in the reverse margin. Some early Arab-Sasanian drachms were struck in the name of Yazdgird III, but the great majority of Arab-Sasanian drachms take the coinage of Khusraw II as their prototypes. This is an extremely rare example of the only known type which copies an issue of Hormizd IV. While the portrait is highly stylised, Hormizd's name is clearly rendered in Pahlawi on this specimen. The reverse of the coin bears the Pahlawi word ZWZWN, meaning 'drachm', where the mint-name is normally placed. The date, apparently 'Year 6', was presumably copied directly from the Sasanian prototype. Estimate: 15000 USD |  |
Match 3:
| Nomos AG > Auction 32 | Auction date: 8 June 2024 |
| Lot number: 650 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction - Bid on this lot  | |
| Lot description: Early Medieval & Islamic ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. Time of Hisham ibn 'Abd al-Malik, AH 105-125 / AD 724-743. Fals (Bronze, 20 mm, 3.29 g, 12 h), without mint name, struck c. 113-116 AH = 731-735 AD. ٱللَّهُ أَحَدٌ ٱللَّهُ ٱلصَّمَدُ لَمۡ يَلِدۡ وَلَمۡ يُولَدۡ Allahu Ahad Allahu al-Sammad Lam yalid wa lam yūlad (the 12th Sura of the Quran), in three lines; around, not seen here, date. Rev. "لَا إلَهَ إلَّا اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ La ilaha illa Allah wahdahu La sharikalahu (the Shahada), in three lines Struck on a Follis of Licinius I, minted in 316-317 in Heraclea, with considerable amount of the undertype still visible. For the coin: SICA II, 1284-1285; for the undertype : RIC VII 15. An interesting and exciting coin, most attractive in its way. Good very fine. What is fascinating about this coin is the way it shows us that some 1300 years ago people were finding coin hoards and reusing them, just as happens today. Of course, when we find a coin hoard it either goes into a museum/storeroom where it is ideally studied and published, or it comes up for sale. When this coin of Licinius I was found some 400 years after it was struck, it was reused to make a new coin!! Starting price: 500 CHF |  |
Match 4:
| Roma Numismatics Ltd. > E-Sale 117 | Auction date: 22 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 1549 Price realized: 2,200 GBP (Approx. 2,775 USD / 2,568 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Italian States, Sicilia (Sicily, Kingdom). Frederick I (later Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor) and Constance as Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, AV Tari. Amalfi mint, November 1198. Outer circle Kufic legend: 'struck in his reign in the year five hundred ninety-five'; inner circle Latin legend: ⧾ FRE REX SICILIE around palm tree in fruit in central circle / Outer rim Kufic legend: 'struck in the year one-hundred one-thousand ninety and eight; inner rim Kufic legend: 'Constance imperatrix of the Romans', around Latin cross in central circle. L. Travaini, 'Le monete Sveve con legend arabe nel Regno di Sicilia (1194-1220)' in RIN 1986, p.136, 2; MIR 36; MEC 14, p.166 fig. 3b; CNI XVII, p.10, 1, pl. 1, 14; G. Sambon, Repertario generale, 1113; M. Guglielmi, La monetazione degli Svevi nell'Italia meritionale, Serravalle RSM, 2000, p.67, 1; D. Spinelli, Monete cufiche, Napoli 1844, pl. 20, 1; R. Levinson, The Early Dated Coins of Europe 1234-1500, Clifton 2007, p.258; Friedberg 51. 0.85g, 22mm. Good Very Fine. Very rare and of great numismatic importance. This remarkable scyphate-shaped tari bears two dates: Hegira 595 and Christian era 1198, the earliest Anno Domini date ever recorded on a coin, which according to Philip Grierson and L. Travaini commemorates the investiture formally granted to Frederick II and Constance by Pope Innocent III on 19 November of that year. In return the pope received an annual cens of 1,000 'schifati', cf. MEC pp.165-6. Amalfi was an independent republic from the 7th century that managed to extract itself from Byzantine vassalage in 839 and first elected an independent duke in 958. By 944 Amalfitan merchants were already present at Constantinople, trading with Egypt by the late 10th century and rivalling Pisa and Genova in its domestic prosperity and maritime trade with Asia before the rise of the Venice. In 1073 the republic fell to the Norman countship of Apulia and was granted many rights and attained great wealth. In about 1080, Amalfitans founded a hospice for pilgrims in Islamic occupied Jerusalem, from which the Order of the Hospital (St. John of Jerusalem) later developed. Under Roger II in 1131, Amalfi passed into the kingdom of Sicily and by 1220 the Empire of Frederick II. In matters of medieval culture, Amalfi was famous for its multiculturalism, flourishing schools of law and mathematics, maritime code and the reputed Amalfitan Flavio Gioia, who in about 1300 was considered the first marine pilot to have introduced the sailor's compass to Western navigation. The date on the Amalfi tari must be connected to the fact that Islamic coinage had been dated from the time of the 5th Caliph, 'Abd al-Malik in the 77th year of the Hagira, the migration of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Yathrib in AD 696/7. Amalfi had been within the Islamic monetary sphere strongly influenced by the Emirate of Sicily since the 10th century, in which the standard gold unit was the gold Tarì (meaning "fresh" or "newly minted money"), the Christian designation of Ruba'i or quarter Dinar with the ideal weight of 1.05g of gold. The idea that coins should bear a date of issue referencing the time passed since the birth of Christ was not widespread in Europe until the mid 16th century. While the learned Scythian monk, Dionysus Exiguus from Tomis, formulated the Anno Domini calendar in the 6th century and is still used to enumerate the years of both the Julian and Gregorian calendars, it was not until the advent of this issue in 1198 that European coinage was so dated. This dating system was not utilised again until 1234 by the bishopric of Roskilde on its silver deniers and in 1251 in Arabic script on the Islamic-styled silver coinage by the crusader city of Acre. In the spring of 1250 the papal legate Odo of Châteauroux arrived in Syria and was scandalised to learn that the Franks were striking gold and silver coins with the name and dates of the Muslim Prophet and had them substituted with purely Christian legends and dates in the name of the Messiah, albeit written in Arabic to maintain acceptability in the region. Much later from 1372 dated groschen in the name of Charlemagne were struck on a regular basis at Aachen. Frederick II, son of Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI of the Hohenstaufen dynasty and Constance the posthumous daughter of Roger II de Hauteville and heiress to the Norman kings of Sicily, was an infant of only three years of age when his father died and was crowned king of Sicily on papal authority at Palermo cathedral on 17 May 1198. Frederick's minority under his mother only lasted five months as the regent died on 27 November 1198. Estimate: 3000 GBP |  |
Match 5:
| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28 | Auction date: 9 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 5675 Price realized: 45 CHF (Approx. 51 USD / 48 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. 'Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, AH 65-86 / AD 685-705. Fals (Bronze, 20 mm, 2.61 g, 10 h), 'Standing Caliph' type, Qinnasrin, AH 74-80 = AD 693/4-699/700. Caliph standing facing, bearded, placing his right hand on the pommel of his sword and whip hanging from his right elbow; around, 'J li' abd Allah' abd al-Malik amir al-Mu'minin' ('for the servant of God, Abd al-Malik, Commander of the Faithful' in Kufic). Rev. Transformed cross standing on three steps; in field to left, wāf ('full weight'); in field to right, mint bi-qinnasrin ('in Qinnasrin'); around, part of the first Kalima reading 'la ilaha illa Allah wahdahu Muhammad rasul Allah' ('There is no God but God alone; Muhammad is the prophet of God'); all in Kufic. DOCAB -. Goodwin, Standing Caliph Coinage, Qinnasrin Type I. SICA I, 671. Attractive earthen highlights. Struck on a somewhat short flan, otherwise, good very fine. From a European collection, formed before 2005. Starting price: 25 CHF |  |
