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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 4371451, member: 96898&quot;]That&#039;s a beautiful new denarius, [USER=93702]@Clavdivs[/USER] !</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s Saturday night here in California, and all more exciting weekend plans are on indefinite hiatus due to the Corona crisis. Thus, I am writing tags and doing digital catalogue entries for the coins below.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of them were recent &quot;opportunity purchases&quot; – Allen Berman, a knowledgeable dealer in medieval coins, recently sent around a list of a very substantial collection of some 700 medieval &quot;Eastern&quot; and Islamic coins he is currently selling on commission. Since all of the coins on this list were definitely priced to sell, I picked a few and didn&#039;t regret it. I wonder whether anyone else here bought something from that collection?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Abbasid Caliphate, under Harun al-Rashid, AR dirham, 787/8 AD (171 AH), Al-Abbasiyah mint:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1103790[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Umayyads in Spain (Emirate of Córdoba), under Abd-al Rahman II, 844/5 AD (230 AH), Al-Andalus mint:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1103791[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Great Mongols, under Genghis Khan or slightly later, BI jital, 1220s/1230s, Nimruz (Sistan) mint, Album 1973:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1103789[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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