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                 |  | Lot 100. Al-Walid AR Dirhem 95 AH, Armenia
    eAuction #32, Lot 100. Estimate: CHF 300.00
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              (Sunday, December 21st, 19:50:00 CET) Current time: Thursday, October 30th, 23:09:29 CET
 
  
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            | Price realised: | CHF 240.00 (1 bid) Approx. EUR 258.63 / USD 300.44 / GBP 227.49
 
  
 
              
                Bid history  
                  
                    | Amount | Bidder | Date |  
                                            | CHF 240.00 | Bidder 1 * | 2014-12-08, 00:48:33 |   * User names of other bidders are replaced by Bidder 1, 2, and so on. |  
            | High bidder: | Bidder 1 |  |  
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 Umayyads. al-Walid I b. ‘Abd al-Malik (86-96 AH = 705-714 AD). AR Dirham 96 AH (29 mm, 2.81 g), Arminiya.
 Walker p. 110.
 
 Very rare. Nicely toned and good very fine.
 
 In the last years of his reign, al Walid secured the Caucasian region against invasions from Khorazan. The Armenian mint probably was set up to finance these campaigns.
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