ABBASID, AL-MU‘TADID (279-289h) Dinar, Ra’s al-‘Ayn 288h Weight: 3.87g Reference: Bernardi 211Hl; ANS 1962.125.22 Slightly buckled flan, minor pin-marks in fields, about extremely fine and extremely rare. One of the rarest of all Abbasid gold mints, Ra’s al-‘Ayn produced a very small number of dinars for a short period between 285-290h. Bernardi recorded a total of just six gold coins struck at Ra’s al-‘Ayn throughout the three centuries spanned by his Corpus.
Estimate: GBP 4000 - 5000
Price realized | 3'200 GBP |
Starting price | 3'200 GBP |
Estimate | 4'000 GBP |