CNG 97, Lot: 859. Estimate $400. Sold for $550. 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 (33mm, 16.91 g, 8h). Unlisted (Mardin[?]) mint. Dated AH 578 (AD 1182/3). Two Byzantine-style draped and cuirassed facing busts; AH date above and to left / Name of Abbasid caliph, Artuqid tamgha, and curse formula in five lines; name and genealogy of Qutb al-Din Il-Ghazi II in margins. Whelan Type I, 46-7; S&S Type 32.2; Album 1828.2. EF, earthen dark brown patina.

From the Warden Family Collection.