348, Lot: 775. Estimate $75. Sold for $65. 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 (26mm, 9.30 g, 2h). Mardin mint. Dated AH 599 (AD 1202/3). Centaur advancing right, head facing, drawing bow at mouth of dragon emerging from his tail; mint and AH date around / Names and titles of the Caliph al-Nasir and the Ayyubid overlord al-‘Adil Abu Bakr, as well as the territorial title of Artuq Arslan in five lines and continuing into margin. Whelan Type II; S&S Type 38.1; Album 1830.2. VF, brown patina, obverse struck slightly off-center.

From the J. P. Righetti Collection.