316, Lot: 511. Estimate $100. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Zangids (Sinjar). Qutb al-Din Muhammad. AH 594-616 / AD 1197-1219. Æ Dirhem (25mm, 10.58 g, 4h). Sinjar mint. AH DATE????????. Bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed Roman-style bust left, holding spear or scepter over shoulder and shield; mint name and AH date around / Names and titles of Abbasid Caliph al-Nasir and Qutb al-Din Muhammad bin Zengi in five lines and continuing in margins; tamgha below. Whelan Type II; S&S Type 81.1; Album 1880.2. Near VF, brown patina.

From the J.P. Righetti Collection.