399, Lot: 676. Estimate $100. Sold for $155. 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 Dirham (29mm, 13.58 g, 10h). 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; ICV 1212. VF, earthen dark brown-black patina, areas of weak strike.

Ex Künker 204 (12 March 2012), lot 1098 (part of).