354, Lot: 748. Estimate $75. Sold for $45. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Zangids (Sinjar). Qutb al-Din Muhammad. AH 594-616 / AD 1197-1219. Æ Dirhem (24mm, 10.58 g, 3h). Sinjar mint. Uncertain AH date. Bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed male Roman-style bust left, holding spear or scepter over shoulder and shield; tamgha before, mint name and [AH date] around / Names and titles of Abbasid Caliph al-Nasir and Qutb al-Din Muhammad bin Zengi in five lines across field; name continued to right and left; Zengid tamgha in exergue. S&S 81; Album 1880.2. VF, dark brown patina, some roughness on the reverse.

From the J. P. Righetti Collection.