Late Fatimids or Ayyubids, Anonymous Contemporary Imitation Glass Paste Jeton. Circa 11th-12th century AD. ND. Inscribed with just two lines of stylised letters in the calligraphic style of the late Fatimid or early Ayyubid period; two reversed crescents below. Album -; Novàk 2006, n. 136; cf. Balog 1973, pl. XXIII n. 47. 5.91g, 26mm.
Black opaque. Very Fine. Rare.
The weight of this piece places it in the double dirham category, and it has the same triangular shape as the piece cited by Novàk, which it has been suggested was probably to define a specific but currently undetermined function.