SINCONA Auction 83
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ISLAMISCHE MÜNZEN Abbasids
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Description
al-Mu‘tamid (‘ala Allah), 256-279 AH (870-892). Dinar 274 H., al-Rafiqa. 4.22 g. Citing al-Muwaffaq and Ahmad bin al-Muwaffaq as heirs on lower obverse field. Qatar 1256. Lovoix 998.Bernardi 181Hn. Album 239.4. Selten / Rare. NGC MS64.
Struck during the occupation of al-Rafiqa by troops of the Turkish general Ishaq ibn Kundaj, lord of Mosul, fighting the Tulunid forces (see comments by Zambaur, Münzprägungen p. 124, note 4, and p. 125, note 6).