AHMADILI

530 – 604 AH

Except for #T1896, all examples were presumably minted at Maragha in southwestern Adharbayjan, the section now part of Iran, although no known specimen shows the mint name. All are weakly struck, really ugly, to be honest, with perhaps 20-30% of the type discernible on a “good” specimen, the most weakly manufactured Islamic coins I have ever seen. Virtually all known coins of Arslan Aba & Kurpa Arslan derive from a hoard of several kilos that appeared in the Tehran market in the early 1970s. Perhaps two thirds of the coins in the hoard were totally illegible, while many others were very ghastly struck and therefore unidentifiable. Only the type of Qara Sunqur was reasonably well struck, and is not from the Tehran hoard.