Ancients (20) Indo-Greek - Kushan Empire Ae Tetradrachm Obverse: King holding ankush and seated on elephant standing right, Reverse: Lunar deity Mao standing left with lunar crescents on his shoulders, holding sword hilt and holding out hand in blessing, 10.44 grammes Fine on an irregularly shaped flan, India Sultans of Delhi 1/16th Paisa 16th Century (8) (7-10mm diameter) many with off-centre or off flan designs, and a group of three pieces on square 6-8mm flans, worn and unattributed, Ceylon Ae Massa (2) Queen Lilavati 1197-1200AD (2), Parakrama Bahu II, both around Fine with green patination, Ancient Spain - Ae20 (200-100BC) Obverse: Head of Herakles, Reverse: Two Tunny fish, VG/Near Fine, Ancient Greece - Phoenicia, Tyre, Obverse: Turreted and veiled head of Tyche right, Reverse: Astarte standing left on war galley, 5.52 grammes, VG, Indo-Greek Tetradrachm or Unit Kanishka Ae24, 13.13 grammes, Fair, Ayyubids bronzeDirham Al-Ashraf Musa Ae30 (1210-1220AD) 10.94 grammes, VG or better, and an unattributed bronze 33mm each side with a pattern of incuse countermarks of three leaves, joined at their bases (9 countermarks on one side, 4 on the other), Fine, a wide ranging group worthy of further research
Umayyad and AbbasidDirhams (4) comprising Umayyad - Hisham (AH105-125) AH125 Wasit, in an NGC holder and graded UNC details, Abbasid (3) (AH136-158) Al-Mansur, AH146 al-Basra, in an NGC holder and graded AU details -Reverse Spot removed, Al-Mahdi (AH158-169) AH161, Madinat al-Salam in an NGC holder and graded UNC details - Bent, Al-Mutadid (AH279-289) AH289 Madinat al-Salam in an NGC holder and graded AU details, Cleaned
Crusades (9) Al-Salih Ismail JerusalemDirham (c.1239-1260) Fine, Al-Salih Ismail Jerusalem Dirham imitative type (c.1250) Near Fine, Kingdom of Jerusalem Acre Fractional Dirham imitative type (c.1243-1250) 1.29 grammes, About Fine, Kingdom of Jerusalem Dirham, Baldwin III BillonDenier (12th Century) Fine, Almaric (1163-1174) Denier, Fine, Henri de Champagne (1192-1197) Bronze Pougeoise Near Fine, and another in bronze, short of flan so exact attribution not possible, Kingdom of Jerusalem Fractional Denier Baldwin III or IV 1173-1186 Fine, holed, Guy de Lusignan Bronze Denier (1186-1192) Fair, Rare
World and Ancient (18) a mixed group includes SassanianDrachm (2) Fine to Good Fine, Roman and Greekbronzes (6) Near Fine to VF, an IslamicDirham Fine, an Indian Temple Token Good Fine, MedievalBrassJetons (2) Poor, a ByzantineFollis VG, Parthian Silver Drachm Mithradates IV Fine, Farthing Token Edinburgh - Lothian Harrison's undated, About Fine, a brass apothecaries weight, Fine, Portugal Real Branco Duarte I (1433-1438) VG with part of flan missing to inner circle, and a bronze? button 20mm diameter with RICH TREBLE GILT legend Fine
Almohad, square Dirhams (53): Sabta (2), Fas (5), Qurtuba, mint unclear (3), without mint (42); together with four contemporary Christian imitations (Millares), varied state (57)
Umayyad of Spain, Dirhams (9), al-Andalus 197h, 366h, 400h, Madinat al-Zahra 340h(2), 343h(2), 353h(2); Almohad, square Dirhams (9), Fas (3), without mint (6); together with other silver (5) and copper (9) coins, varied state, three pierced (32)
Slave Kingdom of Denia, Iqbal al-dawla 'Ali (436-468h), Dirham, Daniya 437h, 3.18g (A 381.1; W 599); together with assorted other silver coins (12), varied state, one pierced, the first rare (13)
Abbasid, Al-Radi Billah, 322-329 AH / 934-940 AD, SilverDirham, Baghdad Mint, NVF, Abbasid, Al-Mutaki, AH300 (941AD) Baghdad Mint Fine, Ilkhans Abu-Said of Persia 2 Dirhams in silver 14th Century (2), About Fine and VF
Collection of mixed ancients, mostly Romansilver and bronze. Also in the group are 2 Jewish Ae prutah and 2 Sassanian Ar dirhams. Mixed grades, some of a collectable grade. [45] Poor to GVF
A small group of mixed ancients. A 'Limes' Ae denarius of Orbiana, Parthian Ar drachm of Mithradates (plugged), Sassanian Ar dirham of Kushru and two small Greek Ar obols. Mixed grades and conditions. Fine-GVF. [5]
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