409, Lot: 798. Estimate $250. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Mardin). Husam al-Din Timurtash. AH 516-547 / AD 1122-1152. Æ Dirham (29mm, 11.85 g, 7h). Unlisted (Mardin[?]) mint. Undated issue. Diademed Seleukid-style bust right; c/m: laqab of Najm al-Din Alpi across neck / Name and titles of Husam al-Din Timurtash in three lines; genealogy in outer margins. Whelan Type I, 34-5 (examples with c/m); S&S Type 26 and pp. 76-7 (for c/m); Album 1827.1; ICV 1199. VF, earthen black-green patina.

From the Norman Frank Collection.