★ An unusually sharp and clear Ayyubid fals ★

ISLAMIC, Ayyubids. Mayyafariqin & Jabal Sinjar. al-Awhad Najm al-Din Ayyub, AH 596-607 / AD 1200-1210. Fals (Bronze, 29 mm, 11.49 g, 12 h), Mayyafariqin, AH 591 = AD 1194/1195. Draped facing bust, wearing headdress and mantle, held together by clasp, from which pendant hangs down; in field to left and right, as well as in outer margin, Legend in Kufic. Rev. Legend in Kufic in five lines; around, legend in Kufic. Balog, Ayyubids 338. An unusually sharp and clear example. Good very fine.