ISLAMIC, Ayyubids. Mayyafariqin & Jabal Sinjar. al-Awhad Najm al-Din Ayyub, AH 596-607 / AD 1200-1210. Dirham (Bronze, 29 mm, 12.07 g, 6 h), AH 605 = 1208/9. Facing bust, wearing headdress and cloak; outer margin, ‘al-malik al-Awḥad najm al-dīn wa al-dunyā shāh armin …’; inner margin, ‘sana khams ˗ wa sitta miʾa’ (‘King al-Awhad Najm al-Din wa al-Dunya, King of Armenia, …. Year 605’ in Arabic). Rev. Within a hexagram, ‘lā ilāh-a i/llā Allāh Muḥammad / rasūl / Allāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah’ in Arabic); in the points of the hexagram, citing the ʿAbbasid caliph as ‘al-ʾimām al-nāṣir li-dīn Allāh amīr al-muʾminīn (‘Imam al-Nasir li-din Allah, the Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); in the outer margin, citing the Ayyubid overlord as ‘al-malik al-ʿādil sayf al-dīn Abū Bakr ibn Ayyūb’ (‘The just king Sayf al-Din Abu Bakr, son of Ayyub’ in Arabic). Album 856.2. Very fine.