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Rare Danishmendid Fals with Full Greek Legends

316, Lot: 462. Estimate $200.
Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Danishmendids (Sivas). Malik Muhammad. AH 528-536 / AD 1134-1142. Æ Fals (23mm, 5.65 g, 6h). [OME]/ΛΗKI[C/ P]ACHC Pω/MANI[AC] / KAI AN/ATOΛHE/ [M]AXAM/[ATIC]. Whelan Type A; CMM 1941; Album 1238. VF, brown patina. Rare.


From the J.P. Righetti Collection.

The Muslim Danishmendids ruled over an overwhelmingly Christian population and the legends on their coins are often rendered in Greek as a concession to their subjects. The legends on the current piece can be translated as “The King of all Rome and Anatolia, Muhammad.”