148, Lot: 495. Estimate $150. Sold for $180. 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, 6.13 g, 6h). Dated AH 620 (AD 1217/8). Large Julio-Claudian style head right; name and title of Nasir around / Names and titles of Abbasid Caliph al-Nasir and Ayyubid overlord al-Kamil Muhammad and Nasir in five lines across fields; AH date to right and left. S&S Type 43. VF, brown patina.

From the Henry Chitwood Collection.