Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 1232. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Danishmendids (Malatyah). Nasir al-Din Muhammad. First reign, AH 557-565 / AD 1162-1170. Æ Dirhem (13.27 g, 12h). Dated AH 558 (AD 1162/3). Name of Nasir al-Din Muhammad in four lines across fields / Byzantine emperor, wearing loros, standing facing, holding labarum and being crowned by Theotokos; ornate design above, date in fields. Whelan Type A, 23-4; CMM 1953 var. (rev. legend); Album 1240. Near VF, brown patina. Struck on a broad flan.

Cf. SB 1961 for the prototype of this coin’s reverse.