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SAMANID: Nasr II, 914-943, AR multiple dirham, "Balkh", AH"326"

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:220.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 400.00 USD
SAMANID: Nasr II, 914-943, AR multiple dirham,  Balkh , AH 326
SOLD
280.00USD+ buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2011 Apr 22 @ 15:40UTC-7 : PDT/MST
Opening bids do not reflect absentee book bids that have been received.
SAMANID: Nasr II, 914-943, AR multiple dirham, "Balkh", AH"326", A-1450, 6.00g, design based on a standard dirham of Balkh 326, including the name of the governor Balkategin on the reverse, probably struck circa 980s-990s, unpublished and probably unique, minor weakness, Extremely Fine, RRR. The obverse cites Nuh b. Nasr (later Nuh II) on the same side as the mint & date, when Nuh was heir-apparent to the Samanid throne.