'Abbasid Caliphate. Al-Muqtadir. AH 295-320 / AD 908-932. AV Dinar (23.4mm, 4.00 g, 7h). Madinat Zaranj mint. Dated AH 302 (AD 914/5). VF.

Islamic Auction 4 – Session 1
Lot: 71. Estimated: $ 7 500

‘Abbasid Caliphate, Gold

Sold For $ 7 500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

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'Abbasid Caliphate. Al-Muqtadir. AH 295-320 / AD 908-932. AV Dinar (23.4mm, 4.00 g, 7h). Madinat Zaranj mint. Dated AH 302 (AD 914/5). Obverse field: without the name of the heir Abu’l-‘Abbas (who is normally cited on dinars of this date). Lloyd, Fourth Century Gold Coinage of Sistan 1 (this piece cited); Bernardi 237Of (this piece cited); Album 245.1. VF. Excessively rare.

Ex Spink Zurich 22 (17 March 1987), lot 414.

The province of Sijistan fell to the Samanids in AH 298, when they defeated the last of the Saffarids and captured the cities of Bust and Zaranj. But the assassination of the Samanid ruler Ahmad b. Isma‘il in AH 301 left a power vacuum in the region, and the caliph al-Muqtadir took advantage of this to send two commanders to re-establish ‘Abbasid control in the region. ‘Abbasid dinars from Zaranj were therefore struck in the year AH 302, and these coins are the only ‘Abbasid gold issues known from Sijistan.

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