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CNG 97, Lot: 863. Estimate $300.
Sold for $560. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Mardin). Husam al-Din Yuluq Arslan. AH 580-597 / AD 1184-1200. Æ Dirhem (31mm, 14.46 g, 1h). Unlisted (Mardin[?]) mint. Undated issue. Small draped bust, wearing Sasanian-style crown, facing slightly right, and large diademed Roman-style male head left; name and title of Husam al-Din above / Name and titles of Ayyubid overlord (al-Nasir Salah al-Din Yusuf I [Saladin]) in five lines; name continued in left and right outer margins. Whelan Type II, 52-53; S&S Type 34; Album 1829.2. Good VF, brown surfaces with traces of red.


From the Warden Family Collection.