Ayyubids (Main line in Cairo). al-Nasir I Salah al-Din Yusuf (Saladin). AH 564-589 / AD 1169-1193. Æ Dirham (29mm, 12.62 g, 12h). Unnamed (Mayyafarqin[?]) mint. Dated AH 586 (AD 1215/6). Near VF.

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Lot: 640. Estimated: $ 100

Islamic, Bronze

Sold For $ 325. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

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Ayyubids (Main line in Cairo). al-Nasir I Salah al-Din Yusuf (Saladin). AH 564-589 / AD 1169-1193. Æ Dirham (29mm, 12.62 g, 12h). Unnamed (Mayyafarqin[?]) mint. Dated AH 586 (AD 1215/6). Male enthroned facing, holding globus; name and titles of al-Nasir I Salah al-Din Yusuf (Saladin) in outer margin / Name and titles of Abbasid caliph in three lines; partial mint formula and AH in outer margins. Whelan Type III, 258-60; Balog, Ayyubids 182; Album 791.4. Brown surfaces, light roughness. Near VF.

Ex Rome on the Euphrates Collection (Triton XXV, Session VI, 26 January 2022), lot 6847; purchased from Wayne G. Sayles.


Closing Date and Time: 3 April 2024 at 13:33:00 ET.

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