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194, Lot: 297. Estimate $150.
Sold for $92. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Zangids (al-Mawsil). Nasir al-Din Mahmud. AH 616-631 / AD 1219-1234. Æ Dirham (30mm, 15.40 g, 6h). al-Mawsil mint. Dated AH 620 (AD 1224/5). Draped young male bust facing slightly left, wearing hair in foreknot; winged creatures above; mint formula and date in marginal legend / Kalima, name and title of Caliph al-Nasir, and name of Abbasid heir presumptive ‘Uddat al-Din Abu Nasir Muhammad in six lines across field; names Nasir al-Din Mahmud, and Ayyubid overlords al-Ashraf and al-Kamil in marginal legends. Whelan Type II; S&S Type 66; Album 1870.1. VF, brown patina, heavy deposits.


From the J.S. Wagner Collection.