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Lot 46

Three Umayyad gold dinars from the reigns of 'Abd al-Malik (AD 685-705) and Hisham (AD 724-743)
Probably Damascus, dated AH 82/ AD 701-702, AH 83/ AD 702-707 and AH 124/ AD 741-742
(3)

11 June 2020, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £2,295 inc. premium

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Three Umayyad gold dinars from the reigns of 'Abd al-Malik (AD 685-705) and Hisham (AD 724-743)
Probably Damascus, dated AH 82/ AD 701-702, AH 83/ AD 702-707 and AH 124/ AD 741-742

each with three lines of inscription in kufic surrounded by a band of inscription in kufic to each side; no mints, good very fine to extremely fine
each 19-20 mm.; 4.26, 4.21 and 4.26 g.(3)

Footnotes

See Stephen Album, Checklist of Islamic Coins, Santa Rosa, 2011, nos. 125 and 136 and Giulio Bernardi, Arabic Gold Coins Corpus, Trieste, 2010, no. 43.

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