433, Lot: 521. Estimate $100. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Ayyubids. Mayyafariqin & Jabal Sinjar. al-Awhad Najm al-Din Ayyub. AH 596-607 / AD 1200-1210. Æ Dirham (25mm, 9.49 g, 6h). Mayyafariqin mint. Dated AH 600 (AD 1194/5). Crowned and draped facing bust / Kalima and name and title of of Abbasid caliph al-Nasir in five lines; name and title of al-'Adil I Sayf al-Din Ahmad in margins. Cf. Whelan Type A, 270-1 (for type); Balog, Ayyubids 842; cf. Album 809; cf. ICV 941. VF, black-green and red-brown patina.