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ZIYADID: al-Muzaffar b. 'Ali, 983-1044, AV dinar (4.35g), Madinat 'Adan, AH[3]76

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:750.00 USD Estimated At:1,100.00 - 1,300.00 USD
ZIYADID: al-Muzaffar b. 'Ali, 983-1044, AV dinar (4.35g), Madinat 'Adan, AH[3]76
SOLD
950.00USD+ (171.00) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2011 Apr 22 @ 14:53UTC-7 : PDT/MST
Opening bids do not reflect absentee book bids that have been received.
ZIYADID: al-Muzaffar b. 'Ali, 983-1044, AV dinar (4.35g), Madinat 'Adan, AH[3]76, A-1071, very clear mint, although the D of madina is retrograde, reading of the abbreviated date is likely, small cross in obverse center, Extremely Fine, RRR. This remarkable dinar is clearly based on an unreported issue of the Ziyadad al-Muzaffar b. 'Ali struck at 'Adan, but because of the numerous misspelling and epigraphic errors, is almost certainly an East African imitation of a Ziyadid dinar of 'Adan, likely produced along what is today the Tanzanian coast or the northern coast of Madagascar. The style is clearly derived from the ordinary dinars of the Fatimid caliph al-'Aziz, who ruled AH365-386, thus contemporary with the Ziyadid al-Muzaffar.