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2 January 2022
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Starting Price: 25 CHF
Hammer Price:  130 CHF
Lot 1026

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. Uncertain period (post-reform), AH 77-132 / AD 697-750. Fals (Bronze, 17.5 mm, 4.84 g, 9 h), issue in the name of the tribe Tanukh, undated. Album 189. Rare. Very fine.



'Bi-tanukh' probably does not refer to a mint but to the Banu Tanukh, an Arab tribe that lived in and around the Hauran. The Tanukhids were Christianized in the 3rd and 4th centuries and fought the Persians and Muslims as Roman foederati until the disastrous battle of Yarmouk in 636, in which Khalid ibn al-Walid defeated the Byzantine emperor Heraklios and his local allies. The Tanukhids were subjected to Muslim rule thereafter, but they remained staunchly Christian for at least another century before finally being converted to Islam under the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mahdi (AH 158-159 / AD 775-785).

Online bidding closes: 2 Jan 2022, 22:33:00 CET Current Date & Time: 25 Apr 2024, 07:31:07 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:130 CHF by MailBidder2339 (5 bids)
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