409, Lot: 813. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Zangids (al-Jazira). Mu'izz al-Din Sanjar Shah. AH 576-605 / AD 1180-1208. Æ Dirham (31mm, 13.53 g, 9h). Unlisted (al-Jazira) mint. Dated AH 584 (AD 1188/9). Draped bust facing slightly left, wearing hair in fore-knot; name and titles of Mu'izz al-Din Sanjar Shah in outer margin / Name and titles of Abbasid caliph and Ayyubid overlord (al-Nasr Yusuf bin Ayyub [Saladin]) in four lines; AH date in outer margins. Whelan Type I, 236-7; S&S Type 85.1; Album 1882; ICV 1279. VF, earthen black-green patina.

From the Norman Frank Collection.