Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 1249. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $207. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Zangids (Sinjar). Qutb al-Din Muhammad. AH 594-616 / AD 1197-1219. Æ Dirhem (14.19 g, 9h). Sinjar mint. Dated AH 601 (AD 1204/5). Draped female bust right, wearing Corinthian helmet; name and title of Qutb al-Din Muhammad around / Names of Abbasid caliph and Ayyubid sultan in five lines; mint formula and AH date in margins. Whelan Type III, 230-1; S&S Type 82.2; Album 1880.3. Near VF, dark brown patina, a little rough. Rare.

Ex Münzen und Medaillen GmbH 13 (9 October 2003), lot 857.