Exceptional Offering of Artuqid Dirhems from a European Collection

CNG 84, Lot: 1662. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Kayfa & Amid). Fakhr al-Din Qara Arslan. AH 543-570 / AD 1148-1174. Æ Dirhem (30mm, 12.81 g, 5h). V ICTO RIΛ COHSTΛHTIHI ΛVG, Victory advancing right, holding tablet inscribed VOT/XXX; ΛIΛ in exergue / Name of Fakhr al-Din Qara Arslan in four lines and in margins; floral design in exergue. Whelan Type V, 127-8; S&S Type 3; Album 1820.3. EF, brown patina, traces of earthen overtones on reverse. Exceptional condition for type.