ISLAMIC, Persia (Pre-Seljuq). Qarakhanids (United). Nizam al-Dawla Abuʾl-Muzaffar Tungha-Tegin, AH 399-404 / AD 1009-1014. Fals (Bronze, 28 mm, 3.11 g, 3 h), Samarqand, AH 403 = 1012/3. ‘Ṭunghā / lā ilāha illā / Allāh waḥdahū / lā sharīka lahū / Tikīn’ (‘Tungha-Tegin. There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him’ in Arabic); around, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba / hādhā al-fals / bi Samarqand sana / thalāth wa arbaʿa miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This fals was struck in Samarqand in the year 403’ in Arabic). Rev. Citing Qutb al-Dawla Khaqan (= Ahmad ibn ʿAli, AH 384-407 / AD 994-1016), ‘li-llāh / Muḥammad / rasūl Allāh / Quṭb al-Dawla / Khāqān’ (‘To Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Qutb al-Dawla Khaqan’ in Arabic); around, ‘mimmā amara bihī / al-amīr al-jalīl / Niẓām al-Dawla / Abuʾl-Muẓaffar’ (‘From that ordered by the glorious amir Nizam al-Dawla Abuʾl-Muzaffar’ in Arabic). Album 3334. Very rare. Areas of weakness and adjustment marks, otherwise, good fine.

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