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CNG 97, Lot: 869. Estimate $200.
Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Mardin). Nasir al-Din Artuq Arslan. AH 597-637 / AD 1200-1239. Æ Dirhem (29mm, 10.35 g, 6h). Mardin mint. Dated AH 599 (AD 1202/3). Centaur advancing left, head facing, drawing bow at head of dragon emerging from his tail; mint name and AH date around / Names and titles of Abbasid caliph al-Nasir and Ayyubid overlord in four lines; name of Nasir al-Din Artuq Arslan in margins. Whelan Type II, 61-3; S&S Type 38.1; Album 1830.2. VF, earthen black-green patina.


From the Warden Family Collection.