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398, Lot: 725. Estimate $100.
Sold for $75. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Kayfa & Amid). Fakhr al-Din Qara Arslan. AH 543-570 / AD 1148-1174. Æ Dirham (31mm, 17.13 g, 6h). Unlisted (Hisn Kayfa or Amid) mint. Dated AH 556 (in abjad system) (AD 1160/1). Draped bust facing slightly left, holding globus and scepter over shoulder; abjad system date to left / Name, title, and genealogy of Fakhr al-Din Qara Arslan in four lines and outer margins; floral design below. Whelan Type I, 117-8; S&S Type 4; Album 1820.4; ICV 1176. Fine, brown patina.


Ex obolos 5 (26 June 2016), lot 1055; Album 17 (19 September 2013), lot 550; Classical Numismatic Group 38 (6 June 1996), lot 1624.