316, Lot: 505. Estimate $100. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Zangids (al-Mawsil). Saif al-Din Ghazi II. AH 565-576 / AD 1170-1180. Æ Dirhem (30mm, 16.47 g, 2h). Nisibin mint. Dated AH 575 (AD 1179/80). Male head left, wearing crested Greek-style helmet; Kalima around / Names and titles of Abbasid Caliph al-Mustadi and Sayf al-Din Ghazi in three lines; mint and AH date in outer margins. Whelan Type II; S&S Type 61.4; Album 1861.2. Near VF, rough green-brown patina.

From the J.P. Righetti Collection.