We have recently learned that one of the world’s rarest and most highly-prized of all Islamic gold coins, or any coin, was sold by specialist auctioneers Morton & Eden in London on Thursday, Oct. 24 for an outstanding £3,720,000 million (over $4 million USD.)
Measuring a mere 20mm across, about the size of a modern £1 piece, the gold coin, an Umayyad dinar, dated 105h (723CE) from the first dynasty of Islam, was bought after fierce bidding by an anonymous bidder over the telephone