ISLAMIC, Persia (Pre-Seljuq). Saffarids. Ahmad ibn Muhammad (Abu Ja'far), AH 311-352 / AD 923-963. Fals (Bronze, 21 mm, 2.06 g, 6 h), Sijistan, AH 339 = AD 950/1. Within a circle, ‘ibn / Aḥmad / Muḥammad’ (‘Ahmad son of Muhammad’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-fals bi Sijistān’ (‘In the name of Allah. This fals was struck in Sijistan’ in Arabic). Rev. Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Mutiʿ lillah (AH 334-363 / AD 946-974) within a circle, ‘al-Muṭīʿ lillāh’ (in Arabic); in the margin, ‘sana tisʿ wa thalāthīn wa thalātha miʾa’ (‘in the year 339’ in Arabic). Album 1413A. Rare. Minor deposits, otherwise, very fine.

From the collection of a Swiss scholar, formed over the past thirty years.