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Umayyad Caliphate. temp. Yazid I ibn Mu’awiya. AH 60-64 / AD 680-683. ‘Ubaydallah b. Ziyad. AH 54-64 / AD 673-683. AR Drachm (32.1mm, 4.13g, 9h). AYRAN APZWT K mint. Dated AH 63 / AD 682/3.
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CNG Islamic Auction 1
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Umayyad Caliphate. temp. Yazid I ibn Mu’awiya. AH 60-64 / AD 680-683. ‘Ubaydallah b. Ziyad. AH 54-64 / AD 673-683. AR Drachm (32.1mm, 4.13g, 9h). AYRAN APZWT K mint. Dated AH 63 / AD 682/3. Obverse margin: - / bismillah ∴ / - / - . Cleaned. EF. Unpublished and apparently unique.
The word APZWT is not a mint-name but a word meaning ‘increased’. It is commonly found on late Sasanian drachms as part of the formula GDH APZWT, meaning ‘the royal glory has been increased’. Coins bearing the word APZWT-K where the mint-signature is normally placed are known for ‘Ubaydallah b. Ziyad only (Malek 7.1), and it has been suggested that the -K suffix may denote a location somewhere in Kirman. However, the present coin precedes APZWT-K with the mint-name AYRAN, which on the basis of sigillographic evidence is generally assumed to be an abbreviation for Eran-asan-kar-Kavad, ‘Kavad has made Eran peaceful’, which was the formal name of the city of Hulwan in Jibal.
The final winners of all CNG Islamic Auction 1 lots will be determined at the live online sale that will be held on 25 May 2022, beginning at 10:00 AM ET.
Winning bids are subject to a 20% buyer's fee for bids placed on this website and 22.50% for all others.
We recognize that our users may have various Internet Browsers and Operating Systems. We like our visitors to have the best possible experience when using our bidding platform. However, we do recognize that it is impossible to develop applications that work identically, efficiently and effectively on all web browsers. The CNG bidding platform supports the latest stable major version and the stable previous version of Mozilla Firefox and Chrome.
The word APZWT is not a mint-name but a word meaning ‘increased’. It is commonly found on late Sasanian drachms as part of the formula GDH APZWT, meaning ‘the royal glory has been increased’. Coins bearing the word APZWT-K where the mint-signature is normally placed are known for ‘Ubaydallah b. Ziyad only (Malek 7.1), and it has been suggested that the -K suffix may denote a location somewhere in Kirman. However, the present coin precedes APZWT-K with the mint-name AYRAN, which on the basis of sigillographic evidence is generally assumed to be an abbreviation for Eran-asan-kar-Kavad, ‘Kavad has made Eran peaceful’, which was the formal name of the city of Hulwan in Jibal.
The final winners of all CNG Islamic Auction 1 lots will be determined at the live online sale that will be held on 25 May 2022, beginning at 10:00 AM ET.
Winning bids are subject to a 20% buyer's fee for bids placed on this website and 22.50% for all others.
We recognize that our users may have various Internet Browsers and Operating Systems. We like our visitors to have the best possible experience when using our bidding platform. However, we do recognize that it is impossible to develop applications that work identically, efficiently and effectively on all web browsers. The CNG bidding platform supports the latest stable major version and the stable previous version of Mozilla Firefox and Chrome.
