Jon Baker Collection (Ancient)
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Lot 3596 Session 12 (11.30am Friday) Jon Baker Collection (Ancient)
Estimate $300
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $210
ABBASID CALIPHATE, al-Rashid, (A.H. 170-193) (A.D. 786-809), gold dinar, no mint name but struck at Bagdad, A.H. 173 = A.D. 789, type, another A.H. 178 = A.D. 794 (A.218). Nearly fine one bent. (2)
Al-Rashid was the caliph about whom the `Thousand and One Nights' was composed, memorialised in the ballet Scheherezade.
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