316, Lot: 497. Estimate $100. Sold for $70. 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 (30mm, 10.26 g, 6h). Mardin mint. Dated AH 634 (AD 1236/7). Male figure seated facing with legs crossed, resting right hand on thigh and holding globe in left; name and titles of the Seljuk of Rum, Kaikhurau, around / Legend in five lines citing the Abbasid Caliph al-Mustansir and Artuq Arslan; mint and date in margins. Whelan Type XIII; S&S Type 48.1; Album 1830.11. Near VF, brown patina, light roughness.

From the J.P. Righetti Collection.