★ Lustrous and exceptionally fresh ★

ISLAMIC, Seljuks. Rum. Kay Ka'us II, Qilich Arslan IV, & Kay Qubadh II, AH 647-657 / AD 1249-1259. Dinar (Gold, 25 mm, 4.71 g, 7 h), Qunya (Konya), AH 648 = 1250/1. Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Mustaʾsim billah (AH 640-656 / AD 1242-1258). Within a dotted circle, ‘lā ilāha illā Allāh / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh al-imām / al-Mustaʿṣim billāh amīr al-muʾ/minīn ḍuriba al-dīnār fī sana / thamān wa sitta miʾa bi Qūniya’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Imam al-Mustaʾsim billah, Commander of the Believers. The dinar was struck in the year 6[4]8 in Konya’ in Arabic). Rev. Within a dotted circle, ‘al-salāṭīn al-ʾaʿāẓim / ʿIzz al-Dunyā wa al-Dīn Kaykāwus / wa Rukn al-Dunyā wa al-Dīn Qilij Arslān / wa ʿAlāʾ al-Dunyā wa al-Dīn Kayqubād / ibn Kaykhusraw barāhīn amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘The supreme Sultans, ʿIzz al-Dunya wa al-Din Kaykaʾus, and Rukn al-Dunya wa al-Din Qilij Arslan, and ʿAla al-Dunya wa al-Din Kayqubad, sons of Kaykhusraw, the evidences [of the power] of the Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic). Album A1227. Lustrous and exceptionally fresh. Virtually as struck.

Ex Leu Web Auction 26, 8-13 July 2023, 6304 and previously from a European collection, formed before 2005.