ABBASID, AL-MUKTAFI (289-295h) Dinar, Hims 292h Weight: 4.38g Reference: cf Bernardi 226Gd (date not listed) Pin-marks in fields, otherwise better than very fine and of the highest rarity, apparently unpublished. Hims is another exceedingly rare mint for Abbasid gold. The mint was evidently still under Tulunid control two years before this coin was issued as Tulunid dinars of Hims dated 290h are known (Bernardi 230Ge), but it appears to have reverted to Abbasid control by the following year (Bernardi 228Ge, citing an Abbasid dinar of Hims 291h reported by Zambaur). The coin offered here, struck in a previously unrecorded year for the mint, confirms that Hims was indeed an Abbasid city once more by 292h.

Estimate: GBP 5000 - 6000