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316, Lot: 467. Estimate $100.
Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Kayfa & Amid). Nasir al-Din Mahmud. AH 597-619 / AD 1200-1222. Æ Dirhem (25mm, 8.60 g, 11h). Amid mint. Dated AH 617 (AD 1220/21). Double-headed eagle with spread wings enclosed within a circle formed by two intersecting quasi-ovals / Hexagram within a solid circle, two-line legend within the hexagonal center containing the name of the Ayyubid overlord al-Kamil Muhammad; mint and AH date in the six triangles formed by the outer lines of the hexagram; name of the Caliph al-Nasir and Mahmud in the six arcs between the hexagram and the circle. Whelan Type IC; S&S Type 18; Album 1823.3. VF, brown surfaces, flan slightly bent.


From the J.P. Righetti Collection.