A very rare dirham of Ghiyath al-Din Kay Khusraw I
Lot 3547
ISLAMIC, Seljuks. Rum. Ghiyath al-Din Kay Khusraw I, second reign, AH 601-608 / AD 1205-1211. Dirham (Silver, 23 mm, 2.77 g, 11 h), Qaysariyya, AH 603 = AD 1206/7. Within a circle, citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Nasir li-din Allah (AH 575-622 / AD 1180-1225), ‘al-minnat lillāh / al-imām al-Nāṣir / li-dīn Allāh amīr / al-muʾminīn (‘Gratefulness be to Allah. Imam al-Nasir li-din Allah, Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘bism Allāh al-raḥmān ḍuriba hādhā al-dirham bi Qayṣariyya sana thalāth wa sitta miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah, the Beneficent. This dirham was struck in Qaysariyya in the year 603’ in Arabic). Rev. Within a circle, ‘al-sulṭān al-muʿaẓẓam / Ghiyāth al-Dunyā wa al-Dīn / Abu’l-Fatḥ Kaykhusraw / ibn Qilij Arslān’ (‘the Great Sultan Ghiyath al-Dunya wa al-Din Abu’l-Fath Kay Khusraw son of Qilij Arslan’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘arsalahū bi al-hudā wa dīn al-ḥaqq liyuẓhirahū ʿalā al-dīn kullih wa law kariha al-mushrikūn’ (‘He [i.e. Allah] sent him [i.e. Muhammad] 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). Album 1206. Rare. Some corrosion and with a few scrapes, otherwise, very fine.

From a European collection, formed before 2005.
Starting price:
25 CHF
Hammer price:
130 CHF
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Closing time: 15-Jul-24, 21:34:00 CEST
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