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323, Lot: 579. 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 Yuluq Arslan. AH 580-597 / AD 1184-1200. Æ Dirhem (32mm, 13.60 g, 8h). Dated AH [5]81 (AD 1185/6). Half-length male bust facing, diademed and draped, with hand across chest; name of Arslan around / Name and titles of the Ayyubid overlord al-Nasir Salah al-Din Yusuf I (Saladin) in five lines within six-pointed star; illegible date in margin. Whelan Type I; S&S Type 33.1; Album 1829.1. VF, green-black patina, area of roughness on lower right of bust.


From the J. P. Righetti Collection.

This is the first coin of Mardin to cite an Ayyubid overlord.