Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Mardin). Nasir al-Din Artuq Arslan, AH 597-637 / AD 1200-1239. Dirham (Bronze, 29 mm, 11.79 g, 1 h), AH 606 = AD 1209/1210. Figure riding leopard to left, head and body facing, holding cup in her raised right hand and dagger in her raised left; around, legend in Kufic 'al-Malik al-alim al-adil Nasir al-Din Artuq Arslan Malik Diyarbakr'. Rev. Legend in Kufic in three lines 'al-Imam al-Nasir / li-din Allah Amir / al-Mu'minin'; around, legend in Kufic 'sitta / wa sitta/mi'a; in outer margin, legend in Kufic 'al-Malik al-Adil Saif al-Din Abu Bakr ibn Ayyub duriba bi-Mardin sanah'. Spengler & Sayles 39. Well struck and likely among the finest known. Nearly extremely fine.


From the Dr. David Majer Collection of Islamic coins and from an important collection of Ayyubid and post-Seljuk coins, Leu Web Auction 14, 12-13 December 2020, 1996.