264, Lot: 564. Estimate $100. Sold for $70. 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 (33mm, 13.67 g, 2h). al-Mawsil (Mosul) mint. Dated AH 620 (AD 1224/5). Draped young male bust facing slightly left, wearing hair in fore-knot; two lions above; mint formula and date to right and left / Kalima, name and title of Abbasid caliph al-Nasir and name of Abbasid heir presumptive ‘Uddat al-Din Abu Nasir Muhammad across field; names of Nasir al-Din Mahmud and Ayyubid overlords al-Ashraf and al-Kamil around. S&S Type 66; Album 1870.1. Good VF, brown patina.

From the Fredy Vortisch Collection.