318, Lot: 910. Estimate $100. Sold for $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Zangids (al-Mawsil). Saif al-Din Ghazi II. AH 565-576 / AD 1170-1180. Æ Dirhem (30mm, 13.21 g, 7h). Dated AH 567] (AD 1171/2). Draped young male bust facing slightly left, wearing hair in foreknot; above, winged figures flanking; AH date to right and left / Name and titles of Saif al-Din Ghazi II in five lines and in outer margins. Whelan Type I, 174-5; S&S Type 60.3; Album 1861.1. VF, brown patina.

From the J.P. Righetti Collection.