ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Mardin). Nasir al-Din Artuq Arslan, AH 597-637 / AD 1200-1239. Dirham (Bronze, 28 mm, 11.53 g, 12 h), pictorial type, Mardin, AH 599 = AD 1202/3. Within a circle, Centaur advancing to left, head facing, shooting an arrow at a dragon emerging from his tail; around, ‘bi Mārdīn sana tisʿ wa tisʿīn wa khamsa miʾa’ (‘In Mardin in the year 599’ in Arabic). Rev. Within a circle, citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Nasir li-din Allah (AH 575-622 / AD 1180-1225) and the Ayyubid overlord Abu Bakr I (AH 592-615 / AD 1196-1218), ‘al-Nāṣir li-dīn Allāh amīr / al-muʾminīn al-malik / al-ʿādil Abū Bakr / malik Diyārbakr’, continued around, ‘ibn Ayyūb / Nāṣir al-Dīn / Artuq Ar/slān’ (‘al-Nasir li-din Allah, Commander of the Believers. The just king, Abu Bakr son of Ayyub. King of Diyarbakr Nasir al-Din Artuq Arslan’ in Arabic)’. Album 1830.2. Rare. Minor deposits, otherwise, about very fine.