323, Lot: 570. Estimate $100. Sold for $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Mardin). Husam al-Din Timurtash. AH 516-547 / AD 1122-1152. Æ Dirham (25mm, 5.87 g, 6h). Diademed and draped bust right / Three line legend naming Timurtash; epithet professing support of the Abbasid Caliph in margin. Whelan –; S&S Type 25; Album 1826.2. Near VF, black-green patina, roughness.

From the J. P. Righetti Collection.

Inspired by the bronze coinage of the 4th century Roman emperor Julian II, also known as Julian the Apostate.