248, Lot: 505. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Mardin). Husam al-Din Timurtash. AH 516-547 / AD 1122-1152. Æ Fals (23mm, 4.41 g, 1h). Bearded, diademed, and draped bust right; degraded Latin legend behind and before / Name, pedigree, and
laqabs of Tiurtash and epithet professing support of the Abbasid Caliph. S&S Type 25; Album. Near Fine, porous brown surfaces. Very rare.
Modeled on a coin of Julian II ‘the Apostate’.