ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Kayfa & Amid). Nur al-Din Muhammad, AH 570-581 / AD 1174-1185. Dirham (Bronze, 30 mm, 12.35 g, 12 h), AH 576 = 1180/1. Male figure seated facing within arched canopy, holding globus in his right hand; on either side of the canopy, an angel floating above arabesque finial enclosing the canopy with the seated figure; in field to left and right, date. Rev. in inner field and outer margin, 'Malik al-Umara Muhammad / ibn Qara Arslan ibn / Da'ud ibn Sukman / ibn Artuq Nasir A/mir al-Mu'/min'in al-Imam / al-Nasir li-din Allah' in Kufic. Spengler & Sayles 10. Rare. Some deposits, otherwise, about very fine.

From an important collection of Ayyubid and post-Seljuk coins.