255, Lot: 388. Estimate $200. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Zangids (Sinjar). Qutb al-Din Muhammad. AH 594-616 / AD 1197-1219. Æ Dirhem (28mm, 15.51 g, 9h). Sinjar mint. Dated AH 600 (AD 1203/4). Draped female bust facing, head right, wearing crested Greek-style helmet; name and title of Qutb al-Din Muhammad around / Name and titles of Abbasid caliph and Ayyubid overlord in five lines; mint and AH date in voids; Zengid tamgha in exergue. Whelan Type III, 230-1; S&S Type 82.1; Album 1880.3. Good VF, brown patina.