398, Lot: 735. Estimate $100. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Mardin). Nasir al-Din Artuq Arslan. AH 597-637 / AD 1200-1239. Æ Dirhem (27mm, 10.66 g, 3h). Mardin mint. Dated AH 63[2, 3, or 4] (AD 1234-1237). Draped facing male solar bust; name and title of Rum Seljuq overlord around / Names of Abbasid caliph and Nasir al-Din Artuq Arslan in five lines; mint formula and AH date in margins. Whelan Type XII, 87-8; S&S type 47.1-3; Album 1830.10; ICV 1221. Good VF, brown patina.