| Classical Numismatic Group > Islamic Auction 5 | Auction date: 18 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 93 Price realized: 11,000 USD (Approx. 10,325 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: 'Abbasid Caliphate. Al-Muttaqi. AH 329-333 / AD 940-944. AV Dinar (22.9mm, 3.74 g, 6h). Filastin mint. Dated AH 329 (AD 940/41). Obverse field: Abu Mansur bin / amir al-mu'minin in fourth and fifth lines / Reverse field: pellet below. Bernardi 308Gn (known only for AH 330); cf. Morton & Eden 107 ( 22 October 2020), lot 45 (a similar dinar of this date from Tabariya); Album 256. Good Fine, scratches in reverse field. Of the highest rarity, apparently unpublished and believed unique. Although his name does not appear on this coin, it was probably struck by the Ikhshidid ruler Muhammad b. Tughj. Miskawayh explains how the province of Filastin had bee ceded to the Ikhshidids in the previous year: 'In Dhu'l-Hijja of this year [AH 328], there came news that Ibn Ra'iq had dealt a blow to Abu Nasr b. Tughj, brother of the Ikhshid. Abu Nasr's followers were routed, his chief officers captured, while he himself had been killed. Ibn Ra'iq took the body, had it laid out and embalmed, and conveyed in a coffin to the dead man's brother the Ikhshid; with it he sent his own son Muzahim, bearing a letter of condolence on his brother's death and apologizing for the occurrence. Ibn Ra'iq assured the Ikhshid that he had not designed his brother's death, and was now sending his own son that the Ikhshid might retaliate upon him if he so desired. The Ikhshid received this proceeding favourably, bestowed a robe of honour upon Abu'l-Fath Muzahim, and sent him back to his father. They arranged terms of peace whereby Ibn Ra'iq was to cede Ramlah to the Ikhshid, but was to retain the rest of Syria, and receive from the Ikhshid for the cession of Ramlah 140,000 dinars.' (Miskawayh, Tajarib al-Umam, 414, translated by H.F. Amedroz and D.S Margoliouth in The Eclipse of the Abbasid Caliphate, Volume IV, Oxford, 1921) Estimate: 5000 USD |  |
