207, Lot: 461. Estimate $100. Sold for $205. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Ayyubids. al-Nasir I Salah al-Din Yusuf (Saladin). AH 564-589 / AD 1169-1193. Æ Dirham (27mm, 11.30 g, 2h). Mayyafariqin mint. Dated AH 583 (AD 1187/8). Lion seated left; four stars around; name and title of al-Nasir I Salah al-Din Yusuf (Saladin) in margin / Name and title of Abbasid caliph; AH date in margin. Whelan 256-7; Balog, Ayyubids 177; Album 791. VF, brown patina, rough surfaces.

Ex Elsen 96 (14 June 2008), lot 1676.