398, Lot: 730. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Mardin). Qutb al-Din Il-Ghazi II. AH 572-580 / AD 1176-1184. Æ Dirham (33mm, 15.29 g, 1h). Unlisted (Mardin[?]) mint. Dated AH 578 (AD 1182/3). Two Byzantine-style draped and cuirassed facing busts; AH date above and to left / Name of Abbasid caliph, Artuqid tamgha, and curse formula in five lines; name and genealogy of Qutb al-Din Il-Ghazi II in margins. Whelan Type I, 46-7; S&S Type 32.2; Album 1828.2; ICV 1205. Near VF, dark green patina.

Ex Album 25 (19 May 2016), lot 632.