211, Lot: 490. Estimate $200. Sold for $260. 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 (31mm, 10.86 g, 7h). Diademed head right, looking upward, within beaded square / Name and titles of Il-Ghazi in Naskhi script. S&S Type 31.1; Album 1828.1. VF, dark green patina under a layer of earthen deposits.

The obverse design is influenced by coins of Constantine the Great depicting the emperor gazing upwards.