CNG 94, Lot: 1603. Estimate $500. Sold for $400. 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, 14.46 g, 6h). 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. VF, brown patina, minor porosity. Rare.

From the J.-P. Righetti Collection.