148, Lot: 483. Estimate $100. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC DYNASTIES, Ayyubids. Al- Nasir Salah al-DinYusuf bin Ayyub (Saladin). AH 570-589/AD 1174-1193. Æ Dirham (27mm, 11.65 g, 9h). Dated AH 583 (AD 1187/8). Constellation of Leo: seated lion left surrounded by four stars; name and title in outer margin / Titles in four lines across field; AH date in outer margin. Balog 177; Album 791. VF, brown surfaces.

From the Henry Chitwood Collection.