Friends,
I am so very happy of having been able to purchase this coin. It is ultra
rare and no other example was ever offered and there is no other example of this on
Zeno either. Those who know me, know that I am a
bit crazy for Artuqid coins. So having this wonderful coin in my
collection is something highly amazing for me. Stephen
Album in
his famous and fantastic Checklist has listed this
type in there based upon this coin. Ever since I knew, through the Checklist, that such a
type exists, I was out on the
hunt for it and now I have one. I am
still waiting for it to arrive, so for now I can only share the dealer's image. This
type is absent in
Whelan,
Hennequin, Lane-Pool,
Spengler&Sayles,
Edhem and
Artuk. It is listed in the Checklist and is now
Zeno #243034 (this coin).
I am very proud to have purchased it and I cannot contain my enthusiasm, although in reality it does not look like much
I can only provide
diameter when I receive the coin.
Description:
ARTUQIDS OF HALAB: Fakhr al-Din Il-Ghazi I, 1118-1122, AR fractional
dirham (1.14g), Halab, ND, A-A1820, citing the Great Seljuq overlord Sanjar; ruler's laqab is Fakhr al-Din on this coin rather than Najm al-Din,
mint name clear in
obverse margin, lovely patination, VF, RRR. No example of this ruler, the first of Artuqids to strike coins, has appears on
CoinArchives, and none are recorded on
Zeno.
