Experts in Coins & Medals

IONIA. Phokaia. Circa 478-387 BC. Hekte (Electrum, 10 mm, 2.58 g). Female head to left, wearing sakkos and pendant earring; behind, small seal swimming downwards. Rev. Quadripartite incuse square. BMFA 1919. Bodenstedt Em. 92 (d/-). SNG von Aulock 2128-9. Well centered; fine style. Minor marks and scratches, otherwise, extremely fine.

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. al-Walid I ibn 'Abd al-Malik, AH 86-96 / AD 705-715. Dirham (Silver, 27 mm, 2.87 g, 12 h), Suq al-Ahwaz, AH 90 = AD 708/9. In the center in three lines: لا اله الا / الله وحده / لا شريك له (There is no god but Allah alone, he has no partners); In the margin: بسم الله ضرب هذا الدرهم بسوق الاهوز في سنة تسعين (In the name of Allah, this Dirham was struck in Suq al-Ahwaz in the year 90). Rev. In the center in four lines: الله أحد الله / الصمد لم يلد و / لم يولد و لم يكن / له كفوا أحد (He is God the One, God the eternal, He begot no one nor was He begotten, and no one is comparable to Him), Qur'an 112:1-4; In the margin: محمد رسول الله أرسله بالهدى ودين الحق ليظهره على الدين كله ولو كره المشركون (Muhammad is the Messenger of God, he sent him with the guidance and the religion of truth, to show that it is above all religions, however much the idolaters may hate this), part of Qur'an 9:33. SICA Vol. 2, 787. Very fine.