323, Lot: 616. Estimate $100. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Zangids (al-Mawsil). Saif al-Din Ghazi II. AH 565-576 / AD 1170-1180. Æ Dirhem (32mm, 15.94 g, 9h). Nisibin mint. Dated AH 575 (AD 1179/80). Male head left, wearing crested helmet; Kalima around / Names and titles of Abbasid Caliph al-Mustadi and Ghazi II in four lines; mint and date in outer margins. Whelan Type II; S&S Type 61.2; Album 1861.2. Near VF, brown surfaces.

From the J. P. Righetti Collection.