409, Lot: 812. Estimate $100. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Zangids (al-Mawsil). Nasir al-Din Mahmud. AH 616-631 / AD 1219-1234. Æ Dirham (32.5mm, 14.54 g, 8h). al-Mawsil mint. Dated AH 620 (AD 1224/5). Draped bust facing slightly left, wearing hair in fore-knot; two winged creatures above; mint formula and AH date around / Kalima, name and title of Abbasid caliph and name of Abbasid heir presumptive in six lines; name of Nasir al-Din Mahmud, and Ayyubid overlord around. Whelan Type II, 187-8; S&S Type 66; Album 1870.1; ICV 1253. VF, brown surfaces.

From the Norman Frank Collection.