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CNG 97, Lot: 839. Estimate $200.
Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Kayfa & Amid). Nasir al-Din Mahmud. AH 597-619 / AD 1200-1222. Æ Dirhem (27mm, 11.93 g, 10h). Hisn Kayfa mint. Dated AH 610 (in Eastern Arabic numerals; AD 1213/14). Double-headed eagle displayed on ornamental base; trace of Artuqid tamgha on breast; mint formula and AH date in right and left fields / Name and title of Nasir al-Din Mahmudand Ayyubid overlord in four lines; name of Abbasid caliph in margins. Whelan Type IB, 152-3; S&S Type 15; Album 1823.1. VF, brown patina, a few cleaning marks.


From the Warden Family Collection.