323, Lot: 622. Estimate $100. Sold for $110. 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 (28mm, 10.80 g, 7h). Sinjar mint. Dated AH 596 (AD 1199/1200). Bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed Roman-style bust left, holding spear or scepter over shoulder and shield; tamgha before, mint name and date around / Names and titles of Abbasid Caliph al-Nasir and Qutb al-Din Muhammad in five lines and continuing into margins. Whelan Type II; S&S Type 81.1; Album 1880.2. VF, brown patina.

From the J. P. Righetti Collection.