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Auction: 382 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale at NY INC
Lot: 61

Islamic, Samanid, Nuh II ibn Mansur I (AH 367-387 // AD 976-997) AR Multiple (Triple) Dirham, Kurat Badakshan Mint, 14.62g, 2h, struck with much softness, residual lustre, scarcely fine; another, Multiple (Double) Dirham, Madan Mint, 10.99g, 2h, mostly flat with some horn silver, good; and lastly, Ghazanid, Yemin al Daulah Mahmud (AH 388-421 // AD 998-1030), Multiple (Double) Dirham, AH 389 [AD 999/1000], Anderaba Mint, citing Caliph Al Qadir and Governor Balkategin, Koranic invocation, crescent above, sword below, rev. legend including titles, 9.85g, 10h (MWI 766; Album 1608), some minor striking softness, otherwise residually lustrous, very fine or better

Provenance

The Dr Tony Abramson Collection

ii) By private treaty, April 1976

iii) Leeds City Museum, Autumn 1994 - Spring 1995 Exhibition

By private treaty, May 1994



This last issue continues the Samanid tradition of multiple-weight dirhems, as the newly risen Ghaznavid Dynasty grew up from the Turkish slaves of the Samanids. They would all invariably be used across Continental Europe and Scandinavia as trade silver

Estimate
$140 to $200

Starting price
$120