
Oliver White
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£18,000 - £24,000
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See Stephen Album, Checklist of Islamic Coins, Santa Rosa, 2011, no. 134A and Giulio Bernardi, Arabic Gold Coins Corpus, Trieste, 2010, no. 44 CA.
Inscriptions: the basmalah; a form of the shahadah and a shorter version of Qur'an, sura IX (al-tawbah), part of verse 33 with the added, 'Muhammad, the Messenger of God'.
The mint name Ifriqiya was almost certainly the city of Qaryawan in Tunisia. Umayyad dinars with a named mint are generally very rare.