20070422

Islamic; Ayyubids of Diyarbakr (Mayyafariqin & Jabal Sinjar)


al-Malik al-Ashraf I Musa Muzzafar ad-Din, 607-617 AH / 1210-1220 CE

AE pictorial Dirham, 29 mm, 12.25 g,
Struck 612 AH/CE 1215, in Mayyafariqin

O: seated figure, orb in right hand, clear date to right and left
R: triangular shield with convex sides,
Names Abbasid Caliph Al-Imam an-Nasir (CE 1180-1225)
Album 859, Balog 849

Purchased in the Suq of the Old City of Jerusalem in 1992.