CNG 97, Lot: 833. Estimate $400. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Kayfa & Amid). Nur al-Din Muhammad. AH 570-581 / AD 1174-1185. Æ Dirhem (28mm, 13.09 g, 12h). Hisn Kayfa mint. Dated AH 578 (AD 1182/3). Diademed head left; mint formula and AH date in outer margin / Name and titles of Nur al-Din Muhammad and Abbasid caliph in six lines; warning in left and right outer margins. Whelan Type III, 139-40; S&S Type 11; Album 1821.3. Good VF, earthen black patina.

From the Warden Family Collection.