Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Mardin). Nasir al-Din Artuq Arslan, AH 597-637 / AD 1200-1239. Dirham (Bronze, 31 mm, 10.30 g, 7 h), Pictorial type with centaur shooting arrow at dragon emerging from its tail, Mardin, AH 599 = AD 1202/3. Crowned centaur advancing to left, head facing, drawing bow whose arrow is aimed at the open jaws of a dragon emerging from its tail; around, in Kufic: sanat tisʿ wa-tisʿīn wa-khams miʾa bi-Mārdīn (‘Year 599 in Mardin’ in Arabic). Rev. Central field, in four lines: al-Nāṣir li-dīn Allāh / al-Amīr al-Muʾminīn al-Malik / al-ʿĀdil Abū Bakr / Malik Diyār Bakr (‘al-Nāṣir li-dīn Allāh, Commander of the Faithful; the Just King Abū Bakr; King of Diyār Bakr’ in Arabic). Around: Nāṣir al-Dīn / ibn Ayyūb / Artuq Ar-/salān (‘Nāṣir al-Dīn Artuq Arsalān, son of Ayyūb’ in Arabic). Album 1830.2. Spengler & Sayles 38.1. Whelan Type II, 61-3. Some areas of weakness, small deposits and flan faults on the edge, otherwise, nearly extremely fine.