20150106

ISLAMIC/Bahri Mamluks; an-Nasir Muhammad I AH 709-741/ AD 1310-1341

AR Fractional Dirham, 16mm, 1.84 g, 1h, no visible mint or date

Album 921 (R)
Balog 212

O: Sultans names and patronymic
R: Kalima

Note found on dealer site:
The rare fractional dirhams were minted with the technique of the Fatimid “black” dirhams. They were struck on insufficiently heated pieces cut from a narrow silver ribbon. The resulting coins vary in size and weight with only the center portion of the legends on the flan and virtually always lacking the mint and date.

20150105

ISLAMIC/Syria; Ayyubid; al-'Adil Sayf ad-Din الملك العادل سيف الدين أبو بكر بن أيوب CE 1196-1218/AH 592-615


AR Dirham; 3.01 g, 20mm, 9h, Damascus mint, c. AH 601/ c. CE 1204-1205

Balog 285 type
Album 803

Festooned double trefoil design obs & rev.

O: Border segment is not visible but should read "duriba/bi-D/imashq/sanna/ahd wa/sittami'yah"
Center: "ad-Din/al-Malik al-'Adil/Abu Bakr bin Ayyub/Sayf"

R: Border segment not visible but should contain the Shahada
Center: "al-Mu'/al-Imam an-Nasir/li-Din Allah Amir/minin"



ISLAMIC/Syria; Ayyubid; al-Kamil Muhammad I CE 1218-1238/AH 615-635


AR Half Dirham, 1.47g, 13 mm, 5h, Dimashq/Damascus mint, c. CE 1218-1225/AH 615-622

Balog 440 type
Album 814.1

O: border top "duriba bi-D" border left [imashq sannah] border bottom [------] border right "sittama'yah"
Center: "Al-Malik/Al-Kamil"

R: Border Shahada mostly visible on this piece.
Center: "Al-Imam/An-Nasir"

20150103

Greece/Seleucid; Antiochus III BCE 223-187

AE 20 mm (Denom. B), 8.49 g, 12h, Seleucia on the Tigris mint c. BCE 220-215
bevelled edge on obverse.

SC 1171 
ESM 237

O: diad hd of Antiochus r with young features and hair in bangs over forehd, dotted border.
R: BΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ on r and ANTIOXOY on l., Nike stg l holding palm branch dotted border.

control visible outer right not visible on outer left but no reason to suspect it is different from that mentioned in SC.

This example is about 0.8 grams heavier than the high end of the published weight range.
considered R2 in Hoover.