148, Lot: 498. Estimate $100. Sold for $101. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC DYNASTIES, Zengid Atabegs of Mosul. Qutb al-Din Maudud. AH 544-565/AD 1149-1170. Æ Dirham (28mm, 10.79 g, 11h). Dated AH 555 (AD 1159/60). Draped male bust facing slightly left, wearing foreknot; above, winged figures vis-à-vis; AH date to left and right / Name and titles, including “Tughril Tekin Atabeg”, in four lines across field; name and pedigree continued in external voids. S&S Type 59.1. VF, dark green surfaces with brown overtones.

From the Henry Chitwood Collection.

This coin type might represent a solar eclipse that occurred over Mosul on 9 February 1160.