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Lot 212

An Umayyad glass dinar weight dated AH 115/AD 733-34 in the name of 'Ubayd Allah b. al-Habhab, Finance Director of Egypt, AH 107-116/AD 725-734
Egypt

23 April 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£2,000 - £3,000

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An Umayyad glass dinar weight dated AH 115/AD 733-34 in the name of 'Ubayd Allah b. al-Habhab, Finance Director of Egypt, AH 107-116/AD 725-734
Egypt

of pale green colour
30mm. diam., 4.23gr.

Footnotes

Provenance: Frank Linville Collection, Malter Sale XXXIX, 2 April 1989, 100, ill.

Seven line inscription

bi-sm Allah/ mimma amra bi-hi 'Ubayd/ Allah ibin al-Habhab/ mithqal dinar wa-/ fin sanat khams/ 'ashrata wa/ mia
"In the name of God/ Ordered 'Ubayd Allah b. al-Habhab/ a weight of a dinar, full-/ weight, in the year fifteen and/ hundred."

Five different dies are known for the dinar denomination under 'Ubayd Allah b. al-Habhab (Morton 1985, 31). Only one other example of the 115 h. type has been published (Miles, 1964, 4 from the same die).

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