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Lot 103 BYZANTINE EMPIRE: Heraclius, 610-641, AE follis (16.91g), Jerusalem, year 4 (613/614), S-852B, DN HERAC LIUS PP AVG, crowned bust, facing, holding eagle-tipped scepter / M for denomination (=40 nummi), ANNO to left, II II to right, and IEROCO mint name below, nice strike, with minimal weakness, one of the finest known specimens, as most known specimens of this extremely rare type are poorly struck and often badly preserved, About VF, RRR. This type was struck during the Persian siege of Jerusalem. The siege commenced in September 613 and terminated in the Persian occupation in May 614, well into Heraclius' 4th year of reign. It was undoubtedly struck due to a severe shortage of ordinary Byzantine copper coins during the siege. Jerusalem remained in Persian control until it was reconquered by Heraclius in 629. There are two subtypes, one with the mint name IEROCO for Jerusalem in the exergue, the other with the phrase XC NIKA. All are dated year 4, and there was no further coinage at Jerusalem during the Persian occupation. Estimate $9,000-10,000 |
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Lot 346 ABBASID: al-Saffah, 749-754, AV dinar (4.23g), NM (as always), AH132, A-210, lovely strike, EF, RRR. This is first year of the Abbasid coinage, occasionally available for the silver dirham al-Kufa 132, but extremely rare for all other examples. There is no mint name on this piece, a tradition maintained for the gold dinars throughout the Abbasid caliphate until the year AH198. The actual locations of the dinar mints prior to AH170 remain undetermined. Estimate $8,000-10,000 |
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Lot 912 SZECHUAN-SHENSI SOVIET: AR dollar, 1934, Y-513.5, LM-891, large solid stars on reverse, PCGS graded AU50, RR. Estimate $6,000-8,000 |
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Lot 940 KUSHAN: Vima Kadphises, ca. 105-127, AV distater (15.63g), G-13, king's bust emerging from the clouds, holding club, flames emerging from right shoulder / Siva & bull standing, both facing towards the right, 3 nicks near the edge, Fine to VF, RR. Estimate $5,000-7,000 |
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Lot 1926 INDIA: bimetallic 10 rupees, 2004, pattern in original packaging, labeled Unity in Diversity, Brilliant Unc, RRR. The bimetallic ten rupee coin was proposed in India in 2003, and a few examples dated 2004 were produced to show to the appropriate bureaucrats and receive their impressions. After its approval, a few inaugural sets were issued with this presentation pack. None others were ever struck dated 2004 and the type was never produced for regular circulation. A few pieces also exist dated 2005, but there was no known presentation packaging for that year. The issue was produced for circulation in 2005-2007, with the mark of the Noida mint, replaced by a new design in 2008. This is one of the highest rarities of modern Indian coinage of the Republic. It has not yet been listed in the pattern section of the SCWC for the Republic of India. Estimate $6,000-8,000 |
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Lot 1025 MUGHAL: Dawar Bakhsh, 1627, AR rupee (11.34g), Lahore, AH1037 year 1, KM-195.1, BM-527 (same reverse die), obverse text abu'l-muzaffar dawar bakhsh padshah sana 1, with the date as a numeral rather than the word ahad, reverse has the kalima, the AH date and the mint name, 5 testmarks, VF, RRR. Dawar Bakhsh was the name given to Bulaki, the son of Jahangir's deceased second son Khusrau, when he was temporarily enthroned at Lahore by Yamin ud-Daula Asaf Khan, following Jahangir's death on 28 Safar, AH1037. A pleasing example, with the entire text fully visible. Even the BM and the KM illustrated specimens have test marks. Estimate $5,000-6,000 |
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Lot 1675 BRITISH INDIA: Victoria, Queen, 1837-1876, AV mohur, 1841, KM-462.1, NGC graded MS62. Estimate $4,500-5,500 |
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Lot 488 RASULID: al-Zahir Yahya, 1428-1439, AV dinar (4.05g), Zabid, AH834, A-C1113, pointed quatrefoil / pointed hexafoil, date in numerals, very lightly creased, believed to be unique, VF, RRRR. Estimate $4,000-5,000 |
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Lot 2430 VENEZUELA: AR 5 reales (50 centavos), 1858, Y-11, Stohr-27, bust with liberty tiara / national arms, very rare type, VF, RR. Estimate $2,800-3,200 |
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Lot 471 BAHRI MAMLUK: Aybak, 1250-1257, AV dinar (6.02g), al-Iskandariya, AH653, A-870, very clear mint and full date, some weakness near one portion of the rim, EF, RRR. Balog knew only of AH654 for al-Iskandariya, and Baldwin recently listed one of AH652 (auction 24, lot 4770). Much rarer than al-Qahira mint. Estimate $3,000-4,000 |
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Lot 1601 TONK: Muhammad Ibrahim Ali, 1868-1930, AR nazarana rupee, Dar al-Nusrat Tonk, 1880/AH1297, KM-20A, struck on broad flan, believed to be unique, VF to EF, RRRR, ex Wm F. Spengler Collection, ex SARC auction 15, lot 1267. A set of nazarana coins were struck in 1880/AH1297, the silver single rupee and double rupee, plus a gold double mohur (there is also a double rupee dated 1881/AH1298). The single rupee seems to be unique, the double rupee extremely rare, and the double mohur possibly also unique. Estimate $3,000-4,000 |
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Lot 145 ARAB-BYZANTINE: Anonymous, ca. 704-717, AV solidus (4.33g), Indiction III (=AD706), A-119.1, W-* (p.71), excellent style, choice EF, RR. Estimate $2,800-3,200 |
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