Estimated price: $30.000CYPRUS. Salamis. Menelaus (ca. 310-306 BC).
AV stater (17mm, 8.33 gm, 6h).
NGC Choice AU★ 5/5 - 4/5, Fine Style2024 November 1 - 2 World & Ancient Coins Platinum
Session and Signature® Auction #3119106001
Estimated price: $25.000Zeeland. Provincial gold Off-Metal Ducat 1764
UNC Details (Reverse Repaired) NGC2024 November 1 - 2 World & Ancient Coins Platinum
Session and Signature® Auction #311966008
Estimated price: $25.000Gaius (Caligula) (AD 37-41), with Agrippina Senior.
AV aureus (20mm, 7.76 gm, 6h). NGC AU 4/5 - 4/52024 November 1 - 2 World & Ancient Coins Platinum
Session and Signature® Auction #3119129005
Estimated price: $15.000Charles II gold 5 Guineas 1673 AU55 PCGS2024 November 1 - 2 World & Ancient Coins Platinum
Session and Signature® Auction #311960001
Estimated price: $12.500Central American Republic gold 8
Escudos 1833 CR-F MS61 NGC107001
Estimated price: $20.000João VI gold 4000 Reis 1820-(b) AU Details (Cleaned) PCGS58001
Estimated price: $25.000LYDIAN KINGDOM. Croesus (561-546 BC).
AV stater (17mm, 10.77 gm). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 5/5129008
Estimated price: $25.000Holland. Provincial gold Proof Pattern Ducaton (Silver Rider)
1672 PR63 NGC66006
Estimated price: $20.000Julius Caesar, as Consul for the Third Time (46 BC),
with Aulus Hirtius, as Praetor. AV aureus
(20mm, 7.91 gm, 9h). NGC MS★ 4/5 - 5/5129007
Estimated price: $10.000Philip III 8 Reales 1618 (Aqueduct)-A MS66 NGC130001
all premium auctions

CNG Islamic Auction 5

Classical Numismatic Group

CNG Islamic Auction 5

Coins

18-19 April 2024

GB-London

Classical Numismatic Group presents the Islamic Auction 5, to be held in two sessions. Session 1, a live sale, will be held in the rooms of the London Mathematical Society, 57-58 Russell Square, London WC1B 4HS on 18 April 2024 beginning at 2 PM BST (9 AM EST). Session 2, an electronic sale, will close beginning at 2 PM BST (9 AM EST) on 19 April 2024. Together, this sale features 700 lots with a pre-sale estimate of nearly $1 million.

This auction is highlighted by a number of rarities, including:

  • A superb Mamluk gold dinar naming Shajar al-Durr
  • An Arab-Sasanian drachm naming al-Bara b. al-Qabisa
  • An Arab-Byzantine gold solidus
  • Umayyad dirhams from Bazija Khusra and Tustar
  • A unique ‘Abbasid dinar from Arrajan
  • A Fatimid dinar from Madinat Rasul Allah
  • Two Fatimid dinars struck in Baghdad by al-Basasiri
  • Two Saffarid dirhams from Oman
  • A Sallarid double-dinar naming the Seven Isma‘ili Imams

Here you can find some highlights:

 
Lot 6: Pre-reform issues, Arab-Sasanian. al-Hajjaj b. Yusuf and Bara b. Qabisa (AH 75-95 / AD 694-713). Drachm, AH 76 (AD 695/6), Jayy mint. Good Very Fine. Estimate: $40,000.

Lot 6: Pre-reform issues, Arab-Sasanian. al-Hajjaj b. Yusuf and Bara b. Qabisa (AH 75-95 / AD 694-713). Drachm, AH 76 (AD 695/6), Jayy mint. Good Very Fine. Estimate: $40,000.

Lot 10: Pre-reform issues, Arab-Byzantine. Gold issues. Solidus. Without mint-name. Undated. Good Very Fine, traces of mounting on edge, tooling in fields on reverse. Estimate: $30,000.

Lot 10: Pre-reform issues, Arab-Byzantine. Gold issues. Solidus. Without mint-name. Undated. Good Very Fine, traces of mounting on edge, tooling in fields on reverse. Estimate: $30,000.

Lot 70: ‘Abbasid Caliphate. Al-Muqtadir (Second reign, AH 296-317 / AD 908-929). Dinar, AH 301 (AD 913/14), Arrajan mint. Good Very Fine, minor weakness in margins on both sides. Estimate: $40,000.

Lot 70: ‘Abbasid Caliphate. Al-Muqtadir (Second reign, AH 296-317 / AD 908-929). Dinar, AH 301 (AD 913/14), Arrajan mint. Good Very Fine, minor weakness in margins on both sides. Estimate: $40,000.

Lot 151: Bahri Mamluks. Shajar al-Durr (AH 648 / AD 1250). Dinar, AH 648 (AD 1250), Al-Qahira mint. Near Extremely Fine. Estimate: $100,000.

Lot 151: Bahri Mamluks. Shajar al-Durr (AH 648 / AD 1250). Dinar, AH 648 (AD 1250), Al-Qahira mint. Near Extremely Fine. Estimate: $100,000.

All lots are available in the online catalog.

For further information visit the website of Classical Numismatic Group.