Sale: CNG 73, Lot: 1124. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 13 September 2006.  Sold For $225. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC DYNASTIES, Zengid Atabegs of Mosul. Qutb al-Din Maudud. 1149-1170. Æ Dirhem (12.12 g, 10h). Dated AH 555 (AD 1159/60). Draped male bust facing slightly left, wearing foreknot; above, winged figures, vis-à-vis; date in fields / Name and titles of Qutb al-Din Maudud in five lines across fields and in external voids. S&S Type 59.1; Album 1858. Good VF, olive-brown surfaces.

From the Henry Chitwood Collection.