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Electronic Auction 338  5 November 2014
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Lot 340

Estimate: 100 USD
Price realized: 170 USD
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ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Mardin). Husam al-Din Yuluq Arslan. AH 580-597 / AD 1184-1200. Æ Dirhem (29mm, 11.24 g, 11h). Dated AH 589 (AD 1193). Three standing figures around central female figure seated left in attitude of mourning / Name and titles of Abbasid caliph in three lines; name and titles of Husam al-Din Yuluq Arslan and date in outer margin. Whelan Type III; S&S Type 35.1; Album 1829.3. Fine, earthen brown patina.

Spengler and Sayles have argued that scene represents Virgo surrounded by planets and relates to an astronomical event of AD 1186 that was thought to portend calamitous events (corroborated by the death of Saladin in 589).
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