97, Lot: 223. Estimate $100. Sold for $210. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC DYNASTIES. Artuqids of Mardin. Qutb al-Din il-Ghazi II. 1176-1184 AD. Æ Dirhem (35mm, 16.22 gm). Dated AH 579 (1183/84 AD). Byzantine style busts, resembling the coins of Heraclius and his son (Sun and Mercury?); date around / Five line legend citing the Abbasid caliph al-Nasir and il-Ghazi. S/S 32.3; Edhem 45; Album 1828.2. Good VF, dark brown patina. Nice fully struck-up portraits. 

From the Dr. Garth R. Drewry Collection.