Coin

Islamic

Maker(s)

Ruler: Mahmud II (1808-39) (Struck in the name of)
Mint: Qustantiniya
Mint: Istanbul

Islamic

Maker(s)

Ruler: Mehmet VI (1918-22) (Struck in the rule of)
Mint: Al-Jaza'ir
Mint: Algeria

Islamic

Maker(s)

Ruler: Mahmud II (1808-39) (Struck in the rule of)
Mint: Qustantiniya
Mint: Istanbul

Jettons

Maker(s)

Mint: Al-Jaza'ir
Mint: Algiers

Abbasi

Maker(s)

Ruler: Tahmasb II (1722-32)
Mint: Tabriz

20 Para

Maker(s)

Ruler: ‘Abd al-‘Aziz (1861-76)
Ruler: Muhammad al-Sadiq Bey (1876-82) (Struck in the name of)
Mint: Qustantiniya
Mint: Istanbul

Fractional Dirham

Maker(s)

Ruler: Uncertain ruler
Mint: uncertain
Place of use: Middle East

Jettons

Maker(s)

Mint: Al-Jaza'ir
Mint: Algiers

Islamic

Maker(s)

Ruler: Mehmet VI (1918-22) (Struck in the rule of)
Mint: Qustantiniya
Mint: Istanbul

Fals

Maker(s)

Ruler: Mahmud (994-1030)
Mint: Ghazna

Kharub

Maker(s)

Ruler: Al-Husayn II (1824-35)
Mint: Tunis
State: Tunisia

Para

Maker(s)

Ruler: Mustafa III (1757-74)
Mint: Misr
State: Egypt
Mint: Cairo

Half dirham

Maker(s)

Ruler: Al-Mustansir (1036-94)
Mint: Misr

Dinar

Maker(s)

Ruler: Yahya b. ‘Ali (known as Ibn Ghaniya)
Mint: Córdoba

Dinar

Maker(s)

Ruler: Muhammad V b. Yusuf (1354-59, 1362-91)
Mint: Granada

Dinar

Maker(s)

Ruler: Badr al-Din Lu'lu' (1233-58)
Mint: Al-Mawsil
Mint: Mosul

One of collection of 335 coins, tokens and paper notes formed by the late Prof. F. Martin Post (d.2005) as a teaching collection when he was Professor of Business at Orange Coast College in Orange County, CA. His son, Mr Ritchie Post, has also donated to the Fitzwilliam $150,000 to establish a Visiting Fellowship in memory of his father and a Book-Purchasing Fund in memory of his mother, Margaret R. Post.

One of nine Roman coins and one Islamic coin:

Maker(s)

Mint: Emesa

Medieval

Maker(s)

Ruler: Abu Ya'qub Yusuf I
Production place: North Africa

Ispahbads of Tabaristan, Farkhan (AD 711-31), silver drahm (half-weight), year 60 PYE (AD 711), the earliest known year of issue; cf. Mitchiner 1332. 2.08g.

Maker(s)

Ruler: Farkhan (711-31)

5 Piastre (5 Qurush)

Maker(s)

Ruler: Mahmud II (1808-39)
Mint: Qustantiniya
Mint: Istanbul

One of ten silver drachms of Tabaristan:

Maker(s)

Ruler: Khurshid (740-761)

One of ten silver drachms of Tabaristan:

Maker(s)

Ruler: Khurshid (740-761)

One of 42 silver coins from two or more Scandinavian hoards of the 10th and 11th centuries. These came from the collection of James Curle (d.1944) of Melrose, Roxburghshire, and were part of lot 158 at Glendinings, 19 July 2000. The dirhems (nos. 2-41), which are heavily cut and tested, are likely to come from a 10th-century hoard, while the European coins, of which there were rather more in the lot, clearly came from a different hoard, deposited in the mid-11th century.