Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1922. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $225. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Ayyubids. Egypt. al-Nasir I Salah al-Din Yusuf (Saladin). AH 564-589 / AD 1169-1193. Æ Dirhem (10.94 g, 7h). Mayyafariqin mint. Dated AH 583 (AD 1187/8). Name and title of Abbasid caliph in four lines across field; AH date in outer margin / Lion sejant left, four stars around; name and title of al-Nasir I Salah al-Din Yusuf (Saladin) in outer margin. Whelan 256-7; Balog, Ayyubids 177; Album 791. VF, brown patina.