323, Lot: 623. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. 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, 11.52 g, 11h). Sinjar mint. Dated AH 599 (AD 1202/3). Bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed Roman-style bust left, holding spear or scepter over shoulder and shield; 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; tamgha below. Whelan Type II; S&S Type 81.3; Album 1880.2. VF, brown patina.

From the J. P. Righetti Collection.