Watch List notes:

ASSASSINS AT ALAMUT (BATINID): Muhammad III, 1221-1254, AR fractional dirham (1.83g), NM, ND, A-1921F, legends 'ala al-dunya wa'l-din // al-mawla al-a'zam, decent strike, strong VF, RR. Alamut ("eagle's teaching") was a remote castle built at 2,000m atop a steep mountain north of Qazwin. For 166 years, it was the center of an Isma'ili state that consisted of a series of discontiguous mountain strongholds in a sea of hostile territories. Most famously, it was where trained assassins were dispatched across the Middle East to carry out high-profile assassinations as a means of defense against its numerically superior enemies. They claimed the lives of hundreds of prominent targets, including several Abbasid and Fatimid caliphs, Seljuq sultans, and Crusader lords. Alamut was finally conquered by the Mongols and partially dismantled, where a substantial ruin remains to this day.

Estimate: 700-1,000 USD