409, Lot: 796. Estimate $100. Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Kayfa & Amid). Fakhr al-Din Qara Arslan. AH 543-570 / AD 1148-1174. Æ Dirham (29mm, 13.74 g, 6h). Unlisted (Hisn Kayfa or Amid) mint. Undated issue. Victory advancing right, holding tablet inscribed VOT/XXX; traces of SIX in exergue / Name, title, and genealogy of Fakhr al-Din Qara Arslan in four lines and outer margins. Whelan Type V, 127-8; S&S Type 3; Album 1820.3; ICV 1175. Near VF, brown surfaces, light roughness.

From the Norman Frank Collection.