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Umayyad Caliphate. temp. ‘Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. AH 65-86 / AD 685-705. Al-Hajjaj b. Yusuf. AH 75-95 / AD 694-713. AR Drachm (29.5mm, 3.84g, 3h). DA-P (Fasa) mint. Dated YE 71 = AH 83 / AD 702/3.
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CNG Islamic Auction 1
Live bidding began May 25, 2022 at 10:00 AM EDT
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Umayyad Caliphate. temp. ‘Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. AH 65-86 / AD 685-705. Al-Hajjaj b. Yusuf. AH 75-95 / AD 694-713. AR Drachm (29.5mm, 3.84g, 3h). DA-P (Fasa) mint. Dated YE 71 = AH 83 / AD 702/3. Obverse margin: - / bismillah ∵/ ∵MN / - / Reverse margin: pellet at 11:30h. Malek 511. Toned. VF. Rare.
Ex Morton & Eden (London) Auction 1206 (24 June 2021), lot 19.
The Pahlawi letters MN in the obverse margin were explained by al-‘Ush as an abbreviation for ‘Mansur,’ meaning ‘Victorious.’ He further noted that this coin was struck in the year when al-Hajjaj recaptured Darabjird from the rebel ‘Abd al-Rahman b. Muhammad, which might explain why al-Hajjaj’s name is in Pahlawi, as on the coins struck there by ‘Abd al-Rahman in the previous year, rather than in Arabic as found on most of al-Hajjaj’s drachms.
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.
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Ex Morton & Eden (London) Auction 1206 (24 June 2021), lot 19.
The Pahlawi letters MN in the obverse margin were explained by al-‘Ush as an abbreviation for ‘Mansur,’ meaning ‘Victorious.’ He further noted that this coin was struck in the year when al-Hajjaj recaptured Darabjird from the rebel ‘Abd al-Rahman b. Muhammad, which might explain why al-Hajjaj’s name is in Pahlawi, as on the coins struck there by ‘Abd al-Rahman in the previous year, rather than in Arabic as found on most of al-Hajjaj’s drachms.
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.
