ARTUQIDS OF MARDIN: Yuluq Arslan, 1184-1201, AE dirham (12.28g), NM, AH589, A-1829.3, SS-35.1, four figures in a "lamentation" scene, said to corroborate the death of Saladin in that year (AH589), short reverse central text, bold strike, superb VF. Sayles has argued persuasively that the scene represents an astrological event whose consequences would have been corroborated by the death of Saladin in 589, thus indeed a lamentation scene.

Estimate: USD 120 - 160