★ A very rare donative issue ★

ISLAMIC, Syria & al-Jazira (Pre-Seljuq). Hamdanids. Nasir al-Dawla, AH 356-358 / AD 967-969. Dirham (Silver, 28 mm, 3.48 g, 5 h), donative issue, citing Nasir al-Dawla Abu Muhammad and his brother Sayf al-Dawla Abu Hasan, al-Masisa, date illegible. SICA IV, -. Very rare. Areas of weakness, otherwise, very fine.

From the Tabib Collection, formed over the past 40 years.

Abu Muhammad and Abu Hasan were known first and foremost by their laqabs Nasir al-Dawla ('Defender of the [Abbasid] Dynasty' in Kufic) and Sayf al-Dawla ('Sword of of the [Abbasid] Dynasty in Kufic).