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Very rare tiny (11.5mm) octagonal tin pitis dated 1219 AH (date retrograde), S.M

Arabic inscriptions "Masruf fi bilad Palembang 1219" (date written retrograde - 1219 AH = 1804 AD) / Blank. 14mm, 0.41 grams. Robinson #10.47 (rated R10 - rarest rating); Krause 123; Millies #195-197. The small pitis are all very rare - this piece is a very nice quality small coin, with clear date and legends. Very rare.

Very rare copper fals of Amir Ahmd (ca.9th-11 century AD), Amirs of Sind (AS #-)

Billah yantasir wa yastain Ahmd ("Ahmd will be victorious and will seek help from Allah" (?) in Arabic within a cartouche / Flower in the center in a square, surrounded by lines. 12mm, 1.16 grams. "The coins of the Indian Sultanates"#AS -; Rajgor -. The copper coins of the Amirs of Sind were only recently identified and published, though many types still remain unpublished and unresearched.

RRR! Very rare bronze fals, joint issue by Hakan Ahmd bin Ali and Simnani, Bukha

Normal arabic inscriptions on both sides, including Kalima, mint (Bukhara) and date (405 AH = 1014 AD). Mint of Bukhara. 28mm, 2.42 grams. Very rare. The Kara-Khanid Khanate was a confederation of Turkic tribes ruled by a dynasty known in literature as the Karakhanids or Ilek Khanids. Both dynastic names represent titles with Kara Kagan being the most important Turkish title up till the end of the dynasty. The Khanate ruled Transoxania in Central Asia from 999-1211. Their capitals included Kashgar, Balasagun, and Uzgen.The Karakhanids issued very interesting copper and silver coinage in numerous mints and varieties and most of their coins are scarce to rare.

Tin pitis, rare very crude type with a retrograde date 302 AH (error date for 12

Very interesting crude type. Struck on a cast tin flan. 18mm, 0.58 grams. Krause -; V.LaHaye/E.Spanier & Fils Lith Du Roi #191; cf. Zeno 187184 (this coin).

Very rare date, coin listed on Zeno (#187181)! Tin pitis, retrograde date 1200 A

Struck on a cast tin flan. 18mm, 0.65 grams. Krause -; V.LaHaye/E.Spanier & Fils Lith Du Roi #191; Zeno 187181 (this coin). Coins dated to 1200 are quite rare (much more so than the coins dated to 1202 and 1203).

Very rare type – AR damma, Abdallah I (fl.883 CE), mint 2, Habbarid Sindh, India

Very rare type - AR damma, Abdallah I (fl.883 CE), mint 2, Habbarid Sindh, India Billah thiqqa / ‘Abdallah / wa nasarahu (“In Allah is the trust of ‘Abdallah and he makes him victorious”) // Muhammad / rasul / Allah / ‘Abdallah ("“Muhammad is the messenger of God, 'Abdallah"). 13mm, 0.53 grams. Mint 2. Fishman/Todd (2018) #HS15. Very rare type, rated RRR in Fishman/Todd, with only one example pictured. Abdallah II was probably the son of Amir Muhammad. He minted coins in "Mint 2" and "Mint 3" and his reign can be tentatively dated to the first half of the 10th century AD. This coin is an early issue (their style quickly became cruder and cruder) and in full size.

Very rare tin pitis with a double rim, Mahmud Baha-ud-Din II (1804-1821), Palemb

Palembang is a city in the Northern area of Sumatra, Indonesia. It was once a Dutch colony, and later the seat of the Sultanate of Palembang. These coins used to be quite rare and expensive, until a number of large hoards made them generally available and relatively cheap.

Arab-Byzantine AE fals, unknown mint, imitating Constans II, c.650-750 CE

Constans standing / Large M, inscriptions around. 25mmx16mm, 3.04 grams.

Rare silver drachm, Turco-Hephthalite lords of Bukhara in the name of the Abbasi

Imitating Sasanian king Bahram V. 25mm, 2.59 grams. Within 60 years, the price of the Ghidrifi dirhams rose even more, with 100 silver dirhams buying only 85 Ghidrifi dirhams.