| Islamic Coins |  |
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| Byzantine Empire, Uncertain Type, Overstruck Islamic (Abbasid?), |   | |
| BZ65305. Bronze AE 23, probably Byzantine overstruck on an Abbasid copper, F, holed, desert patina, weight 3.022 g, maximum diameter 22.8 mm, obverse nimbate emperor standing facing, Islamic inscription; reverse Arabic legend, perhaps reading: [...] Al Mansour(?) [...] Amir Al Mou'minin[...]; traces of Greek(?) or Latin(?) legend; $200.00 (€150.00) |
| Islamic, Seljuqs Sultanate of Rum, Kaykhusraw I, 1192 - 1196, 1204-1210, Brockage |  | Kaykhusraw I, the eleventh and youngest son of Kilij Arslan II, succeeded his father in 1192. He ruled 1192-1196 and 1205-1211, but had to fight his brothers for control of the Sultanate. He married a granddaughter of the Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos. In 1207 he seized Antalya from its Frankish garrison and furnished the Seljuq state with a port on the Mediterranean. According to Niketas Choniates, he was killed in single combat by Theodore I Laskaris, the emperor of Nicaea, during the Battle of Antioch on the Meander. |
| ME65438. Bronze fals, cf. Album 1202, Mitchiner WOI 957, Zeno OCD 121946 (all same type, not brockages), VF, brockage, weight 3.135 g, maximum diameter 22.3 mm, die axis 0o, obverse horseman right, sword in right at shoulder, star at each side of his head, ornament below; reverse incuse of obverse (normal reverse is Arabic script); $140.00 (€105.00) |
| Islamic, Seljuqs Sultanate of Rum, Kaykhusraw I, 1192 - 1196, 1204-1210 |  | Kaykhusraw I, the eleventh and youngest son of Kilij Arslan II, succeeded his father in 1192. He ruled 1192-1196 and 1205-1211, but had to fight his brothers for control of the Sultanate. He married a granddaughter of the Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos. In 1207 he seized Antalya from its Frankish garrison and furnished the Seljuq state with a port on the Mediterranean. According to Niketas Choniates, he was killed in single combat by Theodore I Laskaris, the emperor of Nicaea, during the Battle of Antioch on the Meander. |
| IS67182. Bronze fals, Album 1207, Mitchiner WOI -, F, weight 2.506 g, maximum diameter 19.7 mm, die axis 315o, 2nd reign, 600 - 607 AH, 1205 - 1211; obverse horseman riding right, sword in right, two stars above; reverse Arabic inscriptions, no mint or date, including title "Abul-Fat-h"; $75.00 (€56.25) |
| Islamic, Umayyad, Arab Pseudo-Byzantine, Bilad al-Sham (Greater Syria), c. 658 - 680 A.D. |  | |
| IS55580. Bronze follis, Foss DOC 75, Goodwin 14, cf. Walker BMC 66 ff., SICA I 543 ff., F, nice desert patina, weight 3.408 g, maximum diameter 21.8 mm, die axis 180o, Emesa (Hims) mint, obverse KAΛON (or similar) on left, Arabic script bi-hims (good in Hims) on right, bust of emperor, beardless, facing, wearing crown and chlamys, globus cruciger in right; reverse large m, o * o above, E/M/I-C/H/C flanking, Arabic script tayyib (good) in ex; $60.00 (€45.00) |
| Islamic, Mongols of Persia, Ilkhans, Uldjaitu Khan, AH 703 - 716, 1304 - 1316 A.D. |  | |
| IS47267. Silver double dirham, Album 2188, aVF, weight 3.956 g, maximum diameter 22.8 mm, die axis 45o, Khabushan mint, AH 715 (1315 - 1316 A.D.); obverse arabic legend within and around hexalobe; reverse arabic legend within and around heptalobe; $55.00 (€41.25) |
| Islamic, Ilkhanids, Abu Sa'id, 1304 - 1335 |  | |
| IS47266. Silver double dirham, Album 2200.2, VF, weight 3.567 g, maximum diameter 24.5 mm, die axis 0o, Madinat Tabriz mint, illegible; obverse Lailahe illallah Muhammed resulullah, Ebu Bekir Ömer Osman Ali, Feseyekfikehumullahi ve hüves' semi' ül alim; reverse Duribe fi eyyam devlet is-sultan'ül azam Ebu Sa'id halledallahü mülkehu, Duribe Sultaniye, Niamullah el-nasr...; There is no God except for Allah, Muhammad is a Messenger of Allah; $50.00 (€37.50) |
| Islamic, Golden Horde Khans, Muhammed Bulaq Khan, 1369 - 1380 A.D., 771 - 782 A.H. |  | |
| IS47877. Billon dirham, Sagdeeva 349, Savel’ev 79, Album 2046, Mitchiner WOI -, F, weight 1.383 g, maximum diameter 16.1 mm, die axis 135o, Urdu mint, AH 771; obverse Arabic inscription: "Al-Sultan al-adil / Mohammed Khan / Khalda mulku" (The Just Sultan, Khan Mohamed, may his rule endure); reverse Arabic inscription: Struck in Urdu 771; scarce; $45.00 (€33.75) |
| A Catalogue of Abbasid Copper Coins |  | |
| BW10024. A Catalogue of Abbasid Copper Coins by Samir Shamma, 1998, 4to, paperback, 416 pages, 4 plates, NEW; $45.00 (€33.75) Out of Stock! |
| The Coinage of the Ayyubids |  | |
| BW40234. The Coinage of the Ayyubids by Paul Balog, Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication Number 12, London, 1980, 334 pages, 50 plates, hardcover, dust jacket, new; $40.00 (€30.00) |
| Marsden's Numismata Orientalia Illustrata |  | |
| BK40486. Marsden's Numismata Orientalia Illustrata: A Guide to Islamic and Oriental Coins with Values by Stephen Album, 1977, hardback with dust jacket, 318 pages. Illustrated throughout in black and white, shelf-worn, stains and damage to dust jacket, slight warping from humidity, new but "as used"; $40.00 (€30.00) |
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