323, Lot: 577. Estimate $100. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Mardin). Qutb al-Din Il-Ghazi II. AH 572-580 / AD 1176-1184. Æ Dirhem (29mm, 11.83 g, 6h). Diademed head right, looking upward, within beaded square; Il-Ghazi’s pedigree in margins / Name and titles of Il-Ghazi in five lines. Whelan Type II; S&S Type 31.1; Album 1828.1. VF, brown and green patina, a few minor cleaning marks.

From the J. P. Righetti Collection.