316, Lot: 466. Estimate $100. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Kayfa & Amid). Qutb al-Din Sukman II. AH 581-597 / AD 1185-1200. Æ Dirhem (25mm, 8.39 g, 7h). Dated AH 594 (AD 1198/9). Nimbate half-length male bust facing slightly right, wearing sharbush and holding scepter and globus; AH date around / Name and titles of Sukman II in four lines; marginal legends citing the Abbasid Caliph al-Nasir. Whelan Type III; S&S Type 14; Album 1822.3. Near VF, brown patina.

From the J.P. Righetti Collection.