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We have an impressive selection of some of the most desirable and valuable stamps from Malaysia available, please scroll down.
Islamic coins are one of the best investments at the moment.
As the Chinese are desperately trying to buy back their stamps, hence Chinese stamps are hitting world recrods, the wealthy in the middle east are similarly desperately trying to back their coins.
These two amazing coins which have just come up for sale.
GM49336 - (left)
UMAYYAD, Hisham, Gold Dinar, Ifriqiya 122h, 4.27g (Bernardi 43Ca, the latest Dinar recorded from Ifriqiya)
Slightly double struck on the reverse, therwise extremely fine and extremely rare. It is thought that this coinage was struck to support the first Muslim campaign against the Byzantines in Sicily - £60,000
GM49338 - (right)
ABBASID, al-Mu’tazz (252-255h), Gold Dinar, Makka 252h, 4.11g (Bernardi 162 Ef, 2 refs) a very fine and extremely rare specimine.
The gold for the famous Dinar of the caliph al-Mu‘tazz dated 252h, which so eloquently symbolises the importance of this sacred spot, came from the covering of the Makam Ibrahim.
The earliest known Islamic coin from the mint of Makka was struck in 201h, during the reign of al-Ma’mun bearing the name of his vizier al-Fadl bin Sahl Dhu’l-Riyasatayn. A second Dirham is known from the year 203h.The coinage record resumes with a gold Dinar of al-Wathiq dated 227h, and from then on it appears that the Makka mint operated sporadically over the years. Its Dinars and Dirhams have become very popular among collectors of Islamic coins.
In 160h / 777 CE the Makam Ibrahim, the stone behind which the Prophet Muhammad prayed when he performed the circumambulation of the Holy Ka’ba, and which bears the footprints of the Prophet Ibrahim impressed into its surface at the time that he was building the Holy House, was brought to the abode of al-Mahdi in Makka when he performed the pilgrimage. In the next year, when the Makam was raised carelessly by one of its keepers, it fell down and cracked; it was repaired on the order of al-Mahdi and its upper and lower parts were braced with gold. Al-Mutawakkil in 241h / 655-656 CE improved the pedestal of the Makam, embellished the Makam itself with gold and ordered the building of a cupola over the Makam (cf al-Sinjari, Mana’ih al-karam bi-akhbar Makka wa‘l Haram, ms. Leiden fol. 120b). In 252h / 866 CE the Makam was stripped of its gold by the Governor of Makka Ja‘far bin al-Fadl; the gold was then melted down for minting Dinars, which he spent in the struggle against the rebel Isma’il bin Yusuf bin Ibrahim (see al-Sinjari op.cit. fols. 120a ult. - 120b; for Isma‘il bin Yusuf see al-Fasi, al-‘Ikd al-thamin, ed. Fu’ad Sayyid, Cairo 1383/1963, iii, 311, no 383). A thorough restoration of the Makam was carried out in 256h / 870 CE by the Governor ‘Ali bin al-Hasan al-Hashimi (see al-Fasi op. cit. vi, 151, no. 2050).
(The information for this note is based on the Encylopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition) - £150,000
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