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148, Lot: 493. Estimate $100.
Sold for $87. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC DYNASTIES, Artuqids of Mardin. Nasir al-Din Artuq Arslan. AH 597-637/AD 1201-1239. Æ Dirham (25mm, 5.92 g, 9h). Dated AH 618 (AD 1215/6). Draped bust facing slightly left; AH date / Names and titles of Ayyubid overlord al-Kamil Muhammad and Nasir in four lines across fields; name of Abbasid Caliph al-Nasir in external voids. S&S Type 42.1. VF, black-green patina, light porosity. Overstruck on S&S Type 40.


From the Henry Chitwood Collection. Ex C.M. Webdale Collection (Glendining, 9 October 1989), lot 503 (part of).

The bust probably represents the Sun as an astrological symbol.