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al-Muhtadi (255-256h), Gold Dinar, San‘a’ 256h, 2.80g (Bernardi 167 El, 5 refs). Good very fine and very rare. £6,000-8,000 The coins of al-Muhtadi are, after those of al-Muntasir, the rarest in the Abbasid series. He came to the throne after the murder of his predecessor al-Mu’tazz and was himself murdered the following year. The coinage of San‘a’ at this time was struck to the weight standard of the Abbasid Dirham, c.2.9g. It thus constituted its own monetary system in the Yemen in the 3rd Century of the Hijra.
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al-Mu’tamid (256-279h), Gold Dinar, Fars 273h, 4.21g (Bernardi does not record this mint for al-Mu’tamid). Good very fine and very rare. £5,000-6,000 In 273h. the mint of Fars initially struck coinage in the name of the Saffarid ‘Amr bin al-Layth and subsequently in that of the Caliph al-Mu’tamid, al-Nasir li-din Allah and Ahmad bin al-Muwaffaq billah.