Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 1229. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Ayyubids. Mayyafariqin & Jabal Sinjar. al-'Adil I Sayf al-Din Ahmad. AH 589-596 / AD 1193-1200. Æ Dirhem (10.88 g, 12h). Mayyafariqin mint. Dated AH 591 (AD 1194/5). Crowned and draped facing half-length bust / Kalima and name of Abbasid caliph in six lines across field; name and title of al-'Adil I Sayf al-Din Ahmad in margins. Whelan Type I, 264-5; Balog, Ayyubids 337; Album 809. Good VF, brown patina.