433, Lot: 519. Estimate $100. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Ayyubids. Egypt. al-Nasir I Salah al-Din Yusuf (Saladin). AH 564-589 / AD 1169-1193. Æ Dirham (30mm, 11.81 g, 12h). Unnamed (Mayyafarqin[?]) mint. Dated AH 583 (AD 1215/6). Lion sejant left; star above; two stars below; name and titles of al-Nasir I Salah al-Din Yusuf in outer margin / Name and title of Abbasid caliph in four lines; mint formula and AH date in outer margin. Whelan Type II, 256-7; Balog, Ayyubids 177; Album 791.3; ICV 896. VF, brown patina.