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Lot 49
Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (28.1mm, 2.91 g, 10h). Janza mint. Dated AH 92 (AD 710/11). Near EF.
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Islamic Auction 9
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Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (28.1mm, 2.91 g, 10h). Janza mint. Dated AH 92 (AD 710/11). Obverse border: five plain annulets with one pellet between them at 12 o'clock
Obverse margin: pellet below d of duriba, pellet below J of Janza, triplet of pellets below unit of date. Klat 249; al-‘Ajlan p. 162, no. 19. Near EF. Excessively rare.
Ex Morton & Eden 82 (27 April 2017), lot 15.
An extremely rare mint for Umayyad silver, ‘Janza’ was the Arabic form of Ganja, which is now the third-largest city in present-day Azerbaijan. While some mediaeval sources record that Muslim Janza was founded under the ‘Abbasids in the mid-3rd/9th century, the name is an ancient one and there is little doubt that Ganja was founded at a much earlier date. A later but more plausible account records that the Arab town of Janza was founded in AH 39, during the first Muslim incursions into eastern Transcaucasia. However, Umayyad Janza appears to have been a relatively modest foundation, certainly in comparison with the chief town of the region, Barda‘a. It was only with the decline of the ‘Abbasids that Janza grew to prominence, and it may be this which led some writers to assume that Janza had not existed before the ‘Abbasid period.
The final winners of all CNG Islamic Auction 9 lots will be determined during the live sale that will be held on 24-25 April 2025.
Islamic Auction 9 – Session One – Lots 1–255 will be held Thursday afternoon, 24 April 2025 beginning at 2:00 PM GMT.
Winning bids are subject to a 22.5% buyer's fee for bids placed on this website and 25% for all others.
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Obverse margin: pellet below d of duriba, pellet below J of Janza, triplet of pellets below unit of date. Klat 249; al-‘Ajlan p. 162, no. 19. Near EF. Excessively rare.
Ex Morton & Eden 82 (27 April 2017), lot 15.
An extremely rare mint for Umayyad silver, ‘Janza’ was the Arabic form of Ganja, which is now the third-largest city in present-day Azerbaijan. While some mediaeval sources record that Muslim Janza was founded under the ‘Abbasids in the mid-3rd/9th century, the name is an ancient one and there is little doubt that Ganja was founded at a much earlier date. A later but more plausible account records that the Arab town of Janza was founded in AH 39, during the first Muslim incursions into eastern Transcaucasia. However, Umayyad Janza appears to have been a relatively modest foundation, certainly in comparison with the chief town of the region, Barda‘a. It was only with the decline of the ‘Abbasids that Janza grew to prominence, and it may be this which led some writers to assume that Janza had not existed before the ‘Abbasid period.
The final winners of all CNG Islamic Auction 9 lots will be determined during the live sale that will be held on 24-25 April 2025.
Islamic Auction 9 – Session One – Lots 1–255 will be held Thursday afternoon, 24 April 2025 beginning at 2:00 PM GMT.
Winning bids are subject to a 22.5% buyer's fee for bids placed on this website and 25% 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 stable previous version of Chrome and Firefox.
