★ Saladin ★

No Reserve

Ayyubids, Al-Nasir Salah al-Din Yusuf Æ Dirham. Mayyafariqin(?) mint, AH 586 = AD 1190-1191. Seated sultan facing, holding orb, marginal legend around / Arabic inscription in three lines within marginal legends including mint and date formula. Album 791.4; Whelan Type III, 258-60; Balog, Ayyubids 182. 13.29g, 29mm, 5h.

Good Very Fine; well centred, glossy dark patina. Very Rare.

Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., Islamic, Medieval and World Sale 2, 25 November 2022, lot 20;
Ex Don Ferrante Collection, acquired from Kölner Münzkabinett.