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Lot 231

An anonymous glass half-dinar Weight
Egypt, circa AH 170

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

£2,000 - £3,000

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An anonymous glass half-dinar Weight
Egypt, circa AH 170

of pale amber colour
21mm. diam., 2.04gr.

Footnotes

Four line inscription:
bi-sm Allah/ mithqal nisf/ dinar/ wafin, "In the name of God/ Weight of a half/ dinar/ full-weight".

For the date, see Miles 1958, 180 (the obverse). On the present weight there is apparently no reverse; see the commentary of Morton, 1985, 411: "Anonymous dinar weights are not very common and may not all belong to the main series of Umayyad and Abbasid official issues" as may be the case for these half-dinar.

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