161, Lot: 315. Estimate $150. Sold for $155. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Ayyubids. al-Nasir Salah al-Din Yusuf (Saladin). AH 564-589 / AD 1169-1193. AR Dirham (21mm, 2.76 g, 6h). Hamah mint. Dated AH 583 (AD 1187/8). Name and titles of Saladin in central Kufic legend; Kalima in marginal Kufic legend / Mint name above name and titles of Abbasid Caliph an-Nasir in central Kufic legend; struck date in marginal Kufic legend. Balog, Ayyubids 113; SMA Tübingen 16 (same dies); Album 787.2. Good VF. Very rare issue from Hamah.

Struck in the year of Saladin’s famous defeat of the Crusaders at the Horns of Hattin.