323, Lot: 541. Estimate $100. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Ayyubids. Mayyafariqin & Jabal Sinjar. al-'Adil I Sayf al-Din Ahmad. AH 589-596 / AD 1193-1200. Æ Dirhem (30mm, 10.33 g, 12h). Mayyafariqin mint. Uncertain date, struck AH 591-608 (AD 1194-1212). Crowned and mantled bust facing / Kalima and name of Abbasid caliph in six lines across field; name and title of al-'Adil I Sayf al-Din Ahmad in margins. Cf. Balog, Ayyubids 337 (for type); Album 809. Near VF, brown patina, light cleaning marks. Overstruck.

From the J. P. Righetti Collection.