373, Lot: 500. Estimate $75. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Ayyubids. Egypt. al-Nasir I Salah al-Din Yusuf (Saladin). AH 564-589 / AD 1169-1193. Æ Dirham (26mm, 9.31 g, 12h). Unnamed (Mayyafarqin[?]) mint. Dated AH 583 (AD 1215/6). Lion sejant left; star above; two stars below; name and titles of al-Nasir I Salah al-Din Yusuf in outer margin / Name and title of Abbasid caliph in four lines; mint formula and AH date in outer margin. Whelan type II, 256-7; Balog, Ayyubids 177; SICA 6, 940-1; Album 791.3. Near VF, brown surfaces, a little rough.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection.