Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Ayyubids. Mayyafariqin & Jabal Sinjar. al-'Adil I Sayf al-Din Ahmad, AH 589-596 / AD 1193-1200. Dirham (Bronze, 28 mm, 10.89 g, 12 h), Mayyafariqin, AH 596 = AD 1199. Draped bust facing, wearing headdress and mantle, held together by clasp from which pendant hangs down; in field to left and right, as well as in outer margin, legend in Kufic. Rev. Legend in Kufic in five lines; around, legend in Kufic. Balog, Ayyubids, 343. The reverse struck slightly off center, otherwise, very fine.


From an important collection of Ayyubid and post-Seljuk coins.