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CNG 97, Lot: 888. Estimate $200.
Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Zangids (al-Mawsil). Nasir al-Din Mahmud. AH 616-631 / AD 1219-1234. Æ Dirhem (31mm, 14.49 g, 7h). al-Mawsil mint. Dated AH 620 (AD 1224/5). Draped bust facing slightly left, wearing hair in fore-knot; two winged creatures above; mint formula and AH date around / Kalima, name and title of Abbasid caliph and name of Abbasid heir presumptive in six lines; name of Nasir al-Din Mahmud, and Ayyubid overlord around. Whelan Type II, 187-8; S&S Type 66; Album 1870.1. VF, brown patina with traces of red.


From the Warden Family Collection.