Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Mardin). Qutb al-Din Il-Ghazi II. AH 572-580 / AD 1176-1184. Æ Dirham (33mm, 18.02 g, 92h). With phrase hadha al-dirham ma'lun man yu'ayyaruhu (cursed is he who abuses this dirham). Unlisted (Mardin[?]) mint. Dated AH 579 (AD 1183/4). Two Byzantine-style diademed and draped facing busts, resembling the coins of Heraclius and his son; AH date in margin / Name of Abbasid caliph, partial mint formula and name and pedigree of Qutb al-Din Il-Ghazi II in five lines across field and in margins. Whelan Type I, 46-7; S&S Type 32.3; Album 1828.2; ICV 1205. Dark brown patina. Good VF.

Ex Album 22 (14 May 2015), lot 521.