Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Ayyubids. Egypt. al-Nasir I Salah al-Din Yusuf (Saladin). AH 564-589 / AD 1169-1193. Æ Dirham (33mm, 18.19 g, 3h). Naṣībīn mint. Dated AH 578 (AD 1182/3). Draped facing bust, wearing Sasanian-style merlon crown; lillah to left, al-mulk to right; mint formula and AH date in outer margin / Name and titles of Saladin in four lines within pelleted square; continuation of legend in outer margins. Whelan Type A, 261-2; Balog, Ayyubids 174; Album 791.1; ICV –. Red-brown patina, areas of weakness. Near VF. Very rare.

From the Rome on the Euphrates Collection, purchased from Wayne G. Sayles.