433, Lot: 526. Estimate $100. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Zangids (al-Mawsil). Nur al-Din Arslan Shah I. AH 589-607 / AD 1193-1211. Æ Dirham (32mm, 14.68 g, 7h). Nisibin mint. Dated AH 594 (AD 1197/8). Draped facing, stars flanking; all within pelleted quadrate frame; mint and AH date in outer margin / Name and titles of the Abbasid Caliph al-Nasir and Shah I in four lines and continuing into margins. Cf. Whelan Type I, 183-4; S&S Type 64; Album 1865; ICV 1248. VF, earthen brown patina.