A rare Mongol Dinar from Otrar
Lot 2120
Mongols. Great Khans. temp. Chingiz (Genghis), AH 602-624 / AD 1206-1227. Dinar (Gold, 24 mm, 3.23 g, 11 h), Otrar, AH 6xx. Within a circle, ‘lā ilāha illā / Allāh Muḥammad / rasūl Allāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-dīnār bi baldat Utrār … wa sitta miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This dinar was struck in the city of Otrar … 6xx’ in Arabic). Rev. Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Nasir li-din Allah (AH 575-622 / AD 1180-1225), ‘al-imām al-Nāṣir / li-dīn Allāh / amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘Imam al-Nasir li-din Allah, Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); in the margin, traces of ‘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). Album A1967. Rare. Areas of weakness and slightly wavy, otherwise, very fine.

From a Canadian collection, formed before 2005.
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