Specimen record
ilkh-041
Ilkh-041 Ilkhanid Dynasty, Abu Saʿid (AH 716-736 / AD 1316-1335). Silver dirham (1.68 gm, 23.65 mm), type C, Qumm. Album 2201.1. Extremely rare mint.
ilkh-041
House record
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￥4,980
Obverse
Within a miḥrāb-shaped design, ‘Allāh / lā ilāha illā / Allāh Muḥammad / rasūl Allāh’ (‘Allah. There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah’ in Arabic); below, the names of the four Rashidun caliphs in Arabic, ‘Abūbakr / wa ʿUmar wa ʿUthmān wa ʿAlī’; around, ‘fasayakfīkahum Allāh wa [huwa – al-samīʿ al-ʿalīm]’ (‘So Allah will suffice thee against them, and He is the Hearing, the Knowing’ in Arabic; Qurʾān 2: 137).
Reverse
Within a lobated square, ‘ḍuriba / fī ayyām dawla al-sulṭān / al-aʿẓam Abū Saʿīd / khallada Allāh mulkahū/ Qumm’ (‘Struck in the days of the state of the Supreme Sultan Abu Saʿid. May Allah perpetuate his kingdom. Qumm’ in Arabic); marginal legend effaced.
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