323, Lot: 573. Estimate $100. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Mardin). Husam al-Din Timurtash. AH 516-547 / AD 1122-1152. Æ Dirhem (29mm, 12.33 g, 3h). Diademed, Seleukid-style bust right; c/m: name of Timurtash’s son and successor Najm al-Din Alpi within rectangular incuse / Name and titles of Timurtash in four lines and in margins. Whelan Type I; S&S Type 26; Album 1826.3. VF, brown patina, flan crack, minor roughness.
From the J. P. Righetti Collection.