UNCERTAIN ISSUER Lead personal seal Obverse: Nimbate bust facing, bare-headed and holding sceptre Reverse: Cross pattée dividing middle word of three-line inscription, possibly billah │ al-matran │ yathiq Weight: 6.95g Reference: cf Morton & Eden auction 82, 20 October 2016, lot 80. Good fine and very rare. The word on the reverse, tentatively read here as al-matran, ‘bishop’, appears to be the same as that on the second line of the piece sold in these rooms on 20 October 2016. The word was there read as al-marzuban, and interpreted as a personal name.

Estimate: GBP 700 - 1000