281, Lot: 525. Estimate $150.
Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLAMIC, Arabia. Sulayhids. 'Ali ibn Muhammad. AH 439-473 / AD 1047-1081. Debased AV Dinar (20mm, 2.44 g, 12h). Local imitation. Album 1075.3. VF. Scarce.
Album (p. 120) notes: “These imitations may have been struck across the Red Sea in what is now Ethiopia of Eritrea, though most known specimens are said to have Yemeni rather than African provenance.”
