Rare and unusually complete
Lot 3507
ISLAMIC, Fatimids. al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah, AH 341-365 / AD 953-975. 1/2 Dirham (Silver, 21 mm, 1.41 g), bull’s-eye type, al-Mansuriya, AH 356 = AD 966/7. Three concentric circles of inscription around a central pellet; inner inscription, ‘lā ilāha illā Allāh Muḥammad rasūl Allāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah’ in Arabic); second inscription, ‘wa ʿAlī afḍal al-waṣiyyīn wa wazīr khayr al-mursalīn’ (‘And Ali is the most excellent of the executors and vizier of the best of messengers’ in Arabic); outer inscription, ‘Muḥammad rasūl Allāh arsalahū bi al-hudā wa dīn al-ḥaqq liyuẓhirahū ʿalā al-dīn kullih wa law kariha al-mushrikūn’ (‘Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. He sent him with guidance and the religion of truth, so that He may make it overcome all religions, even though the unbelievers may dislike it’ in Arabic). Rev. Three concentric circles of inscription around a central pellet; inner inscription, ‘al-Muʿizz li-Dīn Allāh amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘al-Muʿizz li-Din Allah, Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); second inscription, ‘daʿā al-imām Maʿadd li-tawḥīd al-ilāh al-ṣamad’ (‘Imam Maʿadd summons [everyone] to confirm the oneness of God, the Absolute’ in Arabic); outer inscription, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-dirham bi al-Manṣūriyya sana sitt wa khamsīn wa thalātha miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This dirham was struck in al-Mansuriyya in the year 356’ in Arabic). Album 699. Rare. A nicely toned and unusually complete example. Light deposits, otherwise, very fine.

From the collection of a Swiss scholar, formed over the past thirty years.
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50 CHF
Hammer price:
220 CHF
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Closing time: 15-Jul-24, 21:14:00 CEST
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