‘Athar - 317 AH

ISLAMIC COINS. Abbasid. Abbasid Gold Dinars. al-Muqtadir , Gold Dinar, ‘Aththar 317h, 2.56g (Bernardi does not record this date for this mint). Very fine and very rare. ‘Aththar was a port in the Asir region of today’s Saudi Arabia.It was often under the rule of Sunni emirs who displayed their allegiance to the Abbasid caliphate in their coinage. Bernardi recorded a single example of a Dinar of this type dated 314h. £8,000-10,000