Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 559Auction date: 3 April 2024
Lot number: 647

Price realized: 100 USD   (Approx. 93 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Artuqids of Kayfa & Amid. Qutb al-Din Sukman II. AH 581-597 / AD 1185-1200. Æ Dirham (26mm, 10.13 g, 6h). Unlisted (Hisn Kayfa or Amid) mint. Dated AH 594 (AD 1198/9). Nimbate half-length male bust facing slightly right, wearing sharbush and holding scepter and globus; AH date around / Name, title, and genealogy of Qutb al-Din Sukman II in four lines; name of Abbasid caliph in margins. Whelan Type III, 146-8; S&S Type 14; Album 1822.3. Brown surfaces, traces of green, some roughness. Near VF.

Ex Leu Web Auction 14 (12 December 2020), lot 1960.


Estimate: 100 USD

Match 1:
Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 559Auction date: 3 April 2024
Lot number: 650

Price realized: 100 USD   (Approx. 93 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Artuqids of Kayfa & Amid. Nasir al-Din Mahmud. AH 597-619 / AD 1200-1222. Æ Dirham (30mm, 9.09 g, 1h). Unnamed (Hisn Kayfa or Amid) mint. Dated AH 615 (AD 1218/9). Male figure, holding dagger and reins, on lion right; Artuqid tamgha to left, name of Abbasid caliph around / Name and title of Nasir al-Din Mahmud and Ayyubid overlord in three lines; name and titles of Abbasid caliph and AH date in ornamental chain around. Whelan Type II, 158-9; S&S Type 17.1; Album 1823.2. Earthen green and brown patina. Near VF. Overstruck on an uncertain undertype .

Ex Solidus 60 (5 July 2020), lot 282.


Estimate: 100 USD

Match 2:
Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 559Auction date: 3 April 2024
Lot number: 647

Price realized: 100 USD   (Approx. 93 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Artuqids of Kayfa & Amid. Qutb al-Din Sukman II. AH 581-597 / AD 1185-1200. Æ Dirham (26mm, 10.13 g, 6h). Unlisted (Hisn Kayfa or Amid) mint. Dated AH 594 (AD 1198/9). Nimbate half-length male bust facing slightly right, wearing sharbush and holding scepter and globus; AH date around / Name, title, and genealogy of Qutb al-Din Sukman II in four lines; name of Abbasid caliph in margins. Whelan Type III, 146-8; S&S Type 14; Album 1822.3. Brown surfaces, traces of green, some roughness. Near VF.

Ex Leu Web Auction 14 (12 December 2020), lot 1960.


Estimate: 100 USD

Match 3:
Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 559Auction date: 3 April 2024
Lot number: 648

Price realized: 100 USD   (Approx. 93 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Artuqids of Kayfa & Amid. Qutb al-Din Sukman II. AH 581-597 / AD 1185-1200. Æ Dirham (31mm, 13.43 g, 11h). Unlisted (Hisn Kayfa or Amid) mint. Dated AH 584 (AD 1188/9). Diademed, Roman-style heads back to back, appearing to stem from a single body; AH date above / Name and titles of Sukman II in four lines; marginal legend citing the Ayyubid overlord al-Nasir Salah al-Din Yusuf I (Saladin). Whelan Type II; S&S Type 13; Album 1822.2. Dark brown patina, traces of deposits, area of weakness on reverse. VF.

Ex obolos 16 (11 Ocrober 2020), lot 1326.


Estimate: 150 USD

Match 4:
Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 559Auction date: 3 April 2024
Lot number: 649

Price realized: 200 USD   (Approx. 185 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Artuqids of Kayfa & Amid. Nasir al-Din Mahmud. AH 597-619 / AD 1200-1222. Æ Dirham (28.5mm, 11.90 g, 9h). Hisn Kayfa mint. Dated AH 610 (AD 1213/4). Double-headed eagle displayed on ornamental base; Artuqid tamgha on breast; mint formula and AH date in right and left fields / Name and title of Nasir al-Din Mahmudand Ayyubid overlord in four lines; name of Abbasid caliph in margins. Whelan Type IB, 152-3; S&S Type 15; Album 1823.1. Brown patina, slight green deposits. VF.

Ex obolos 151 (24 May 2020), lot 1083.


Estimate: 100 USD

Match 5:
Classical Numismatic Group > Islamic Auction 5Auction date: 18 April 2024
Lot number: 583

Price realized: Unsold
Lot description:


Artuqids of Kayfa & Amid. Nasir al-Din Mahmud. AH 597-619 / AD 1200-1222. Æ Dirham (29.9mm, 13.78 g, 10h). Al-Hisn mint. Dated AH 610 (AD 1213/14). Double-headed eagle with Artuqid tamgha on breast / Four-line inscription continuing to right, top and left. S&S 15; Album 1823.1. Weakly struck on reverse. Near VF.


Estimate: 100 USD

Match 6:
Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28Auction date: 9 December 2023
Lot number: 6156

Price realized: 160 CHF   (Approx. 182 USD / 169 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Kayfa & Amid). Qutb al-Din Sukman II, AH 581-597 / AD 1185-1200. Dirham (Bronze, 28 mm, 10.74 g, 1 h), AH 584 = 1188/9. Diademed Roman-style busts back to back; above, traces of 'sana arbaʿ wa thamānīn wa khamsa miʾa' ('year 584' in Arabic). Rev. Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Nasir li-din Allah (AH 575-622 / AD 1180-1225), and the Ayyubid al-Nasir Salah al-Din Yusuf (AH 564-589 / AD 1169-1193) as overlord in the field and around as 'al-malik al-ʿādil Quṭb / al-Dīn Sukmān ibn / Muḥammad ibn Qarā Arslān / ibn Urtuq muʿīn al-imā/[m al-Nāṣir /] li-Dīn Allāh / [al-malik al-Nāṣir /] Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb' ('The just king Qutb al-Din Sukman, son of Muhammad, son of Qara Arslan, son of Urtuq, supporter of Imam al-Nasir li-din Allah. King al-Nasir Yusuf, son of Ayyub' in Arabic). Album 1822.2. Rare. Somewhat weak and with minor deposits, otherwise, good fine.


Ex Leu Web Auction 26, 8-13 July 2023, 6316 and previously from a European collection, formed before 2005.

Starting price: 25 CHF