| Classical Numismatic Group > Islamic Auction 5 | Auction date: 18 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 38 Price realized: Unsold | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (24.5mm, 1.84 g, 1h). Harat mint. Dated AH 80 (AD 699/700). Obverse field: without Pahlawi mint-name below / Reverse: margin ends al-mushrikn. Klat –; al-'Ajlan -. Clipped. Fine. Of the highest rarity, apparently unpublished. The first years of minting post-reform Umayyad dirhams at Harat seem to have been somewhat chaotic. Dirhams struck in the year AH 79 have standard legends and the normal five small annulets on the obverse, but we have examples on which the mint-name is variously misspelled as 'Ahbahr' (with the letters of the mint-name engraved in reverse order) and 'Hr' (with the final two letters omitted). Those coins on which the name is correctly engraved, however, inexplicably have seven annulets on the reverse, while 'Ahbahr' and 'Hr' have the normal five. Equally inexplicably, in AH 80 it was evidently decided to add the Pahlawi mint-signature below the obverse field, as was standard on dirhams struck at Marw and Marw al-Rudh between AH 79 and AH 84, while retaining the unusual extra annulets in the reverse border. Estimate: 3000 USD |  |
