316, Lot: 490. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Mardin). Nasir al-Din Artuq Arslan. AH 597-637 / AD 1200-1239. Æ Dirhem (20mm, 6.91 g, 1h). Dated AH 618 (AD 1221). Diademed and draped male bust facing slightly right; AH date around / Names and titles of the Ayyubid overlord al-Kamil Muhammad and Artuq Arslan; name and title of the Caliph al-Nasir in margins. Whelan Type IVB; S&S Type 42.2; Album 1830.6. VF, brown patina, some bare metal showing through.

From the J.P. Righetti Collection.