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CNG 84, Lot: 1669. Estimate $300.
Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Kayfa & Amid). Nur al-Din Muhammad. AH 570-581 / AD 1174-1185. Æ Dirhem (28mm, 11.92 g, 6h). Dated AH 57[6] (AD 1180/1). Male figure, wearing conical headdress and holding globus, seated facing within arched canopy; winged genii on either side, AH date in fields / Name and titles of Nur al-Din Muhammad in four lines within square; name of Abbasid caliph in margins. Whelan Type II, 137-8; S&S Type 10; Album 1821.2. VF, brown patina with traces of earthen overtones. Very rare.


Ex Classical Numismatic Group 49 (17 March 1999), lot 2121.