323, Lot: 612. Estimate $100. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Zangids (al-Mawsil). Qutb al-Din Mawdud. AH 544-565 / AD 1149-1170. Æ Dirhem (28mm, 10.78 g, 12h). Dated AH 555 (AD 1159/60). Draped bust facing slightly left, wearing hair in fore-knot; two winged creatures above, date flanking / Name and titles of Mawdud in five lines and continuing into margins. Whelan Type II; S&S Type 59.1; Album 1858. VF, brown patina, cleaning marks.

From the J. P. Righetti Collection.