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Lot 1856

Estimate: 250 GBP
Price realized: 420 GBP
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Zengids of Mosul, Nasir al-Din Mahmud Æ Dirham. al-Mawsil (Mosul) mint, dated AH 627 = AD 1229/30. Crowned Turkish female figure seated facing, holding crescent, two stars flanking; mint formula and AH date around / Kalima and name and titles of Abbasid caliph and Ayyubid Sultans in five lines; name and titles of Nasir al-Din Mahmud in outer margin. S&S Type 67 (this coin plated); Edhem 138; Album 1870.2. 7.19g, 24mm, 1h.

Extremely Fine; a highly attractive example.

This coin published in W. F. Spengler and W. G. Sayles, Turkoman Figural Bronze Coins and Their Iconography: The Zengids. 1992 (obv. illustrated on cover).
Ex William F. Spangler & Wayne G. Sayes Reference Collection of Zengid-Turkoman Figural bronze coins, Classical Numismatic Group, Action 38, 6 June 1996, lot 1317.
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