★ Wonderful Example ★

Islamic. Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Mardin). Qutb al-Din Il-Ghazi II. Æ Dirham (15.1 gr.), AH 572-580 / AD 1176-1184. Two Byzantine-style diademed and draped facing busts, resembling the coins of Heraclius and his son; AH date in margin / Name of Abbasid caliph, partial mint formula and name and pedigree of Qutb al-Din Il-Ghazi II in five lines across field and in margins. Whelan Type I, 46-7; S&S Type 32.4; Album 1828.2.

Very attractive green-brown patina. Good Very Fine! A really wonderful example of the issue.