96, Lot: 213. Estimate $250. Sold for $375. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC DYNASTIES. Ayyubids. al-Nasir Salah ed-Din Yusuf bin Ayyub (Saladin). 1171-1193 AD. AV Dinar (20mm, 5.37 gm). al-Iskandariya (Alexandria) mint. Dated AH 585 (1189 AD). "al-Imam/Ahmad" in two lines across field; Kalima, "abu'l-Abbas al-Nasir ed-Din Allah commander of the Faithful" in inner margin; "Bismillah er-Rahman er-Rahim struck was this dinar in al-Iskandariya in the year five and eighty and five hundred" in outer margin / "Yusuf/bin-Ayyub" in two lines across field; "alin al-Malik ghaya Salah ed-Din" in inner margin; Quran 9:33. Kazan 641; Album 785.2. VF. Scarce.