CNG 94, Lot: 1597. Estimate $300. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Ayyubids. Egypt. al-Nasir I Salah al-Din Yusuf (Saladin). AH 564-589 / AD 1169-1193. Æ Dirhem (34mm, 16.23 g, 8h). Naṣībīn mint. Dated AH 578 (AD 1215/6). Draped facing bust, wearing Sasanian-style merlon crown; “lillah” to left, “al-mulk” to right; mint formula and AH date in outer margin / Name and titles of Saladin in four lines within pelleted square; continuation of legend in outer margins. Whelan type A, 261-2; Balog, Ayyubids 174; SICA 6 –; Album 791.1. VF, brown patina, areas of weak strike. Rare.

From the J.-P. Righetti Collection.