CNG 99, Lot: 961. Estimate $300. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Zangids (al-Mawsil). Nasir al-Din Mahmud. AH 616-631 / AD 1219-1234. Æ Dirhem (25mm, 8.23 g, 6h). al-Mawsil mint. Dated AH 627 (AD 1231/2). Crowned Turkish female figure, holding crescent-circle, seated facing between two stars; mint formula and AH date around / Kalima and name and titles of Abbasid caliph in five lines; name and titles of Nasir al-Din Mahmud in outer margin. Whelan Type III, 189-90; S&S Type 67; Album 1870.2. Good VF, brown patina.
Ex CNG Inventory 872697 (June 2010).