ISLAMIC, Persia (Pre-Seljuq). Qarakhanids (United). Nasr ibn 'Ali, circa AH 383-403 / AD 993-1012. Fals (Bronze, 27 mm, 3.00 g), Ferghana, AH 401 = 1010/1. Within an octofoil, ‘pādshāh’ (‘king’ in Persian); in the margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-fals bi Farghāna sana aḥad wa arba’ (‘In the name of Allah. This fals was struck in Ferghana in the year one and four [hundred]’ in Arabic). Rev. ‘Muḥammad / rasūl / Allāh’ (‘Muhammad is the messenger of Allah’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘mimmā amara bihī al-amīr Naṣr ibn ʿAlī mawlā amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘From that ordered by Amir Nasr ibn Ali, vassal of the Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic). Album 3303. Rare. Areas of weakness and adjustment marks as made, otherwise, very fine.

From the collection of Dr. D. Löer, formed since the 1970s.