Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 1244. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Mardin). Qutb al-Din Il-Ghazi II. AH 572-580 / AD 1176-1184. Æ Dirhem (14.27 g, 6h). Dated AH 580 (AD 1184/5). Two Byzantine-style diademed and draped facing busts, resembling the coins of Heraclius and his son; AH date in margin / Name of Abbasid caliph, partial mint formula and name and pedigree of Qutb al-Din Il-Ghazi II in five lines across fieldand in margins. Whelan Type I, 46-7; S&S Type 32.4; Album 1828.2. Good VF, black-green patina with traces of earthen deposits, light cleaning marks. Struck on a broad flan.