Heaviest Recorded Example

400, Lot: 713. Estimate $3000. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Mongols. Great Khans. Chingiz (Genghis). AH 602-624 / AD 1206-1227. AV Dinar (28mm, 7.72 g, 12h). Ghazna (Ghazni) mint. Dated AH 618 (AD 1221/2). Kalima and al-Nasir ed-Din Allah/Amir al-muminin in Arabic in four lines across field; tendrils to left and right, “Umayyad Second Symbol” (Quran 9.33) in outer margin / Khan of Khans, the Just, the Most Mighty, Chingiz Khan in Arabic in four lines across field, tendrils to left and right; mint formula and AH date in outer margin. Nyamaa 1; W.F. Spengler, "Hoard of Genghis Khan Gold Dinars Recalls Calamitous History," ONS Newsletter 147 (Winter 1996), 16-18; SNA Tübingen -; Album 1964; ICV 1940. VF, lightly toned, areas of weak strike at peripheries, obverse slightly double struck. Heaviest recorded example of this type.