ISLAMIC, Ayyubids. Aleppo. al-Nasir II Yusuf, AH 634-658 / AD 1236-1260. Dirham (Silver, 21 mm, 2.90 g, 11 h), six-pointed star type, Halab, AH 637 = 1239/40. Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Mustansir billah (AH 623-640 / AD 1226-1242) and the Seljuq overlord Kaykhusraw II (AH 634-644 / AD 1236-1245) within a six-pointed star, ‘Abū Jaʿfar / al-imām al-Mustanṣir billāh / al-sulṭān / al-aʿẓam Kaykhusra/w’ (‘Abu Jaʿfar Imam al-Mustansir billah. The supreme sultan Kaykhusraw’ in Arabic); around, ‘[lā ilāha / illā A]/llāh / Muḥammad / rasūl / Allāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah’ in Arabic). Rev. Within a six-pointed star, ‘Yūsuf / al-malik al-Nāṣir / Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn / ibn al-malik al-ʿAzīz / Muḥammad’ (‘King al-Nasir Yusuf Salah al-Din son of King al-ʿAziz Muhammad’ in Arabic); around, ‘ḍuriba / bi Ḥalab / sana / sabʿ / thalāthīn / sitta miʾa’ (‘Struck in Halab in the year 637’ in Arabic). Album 842.2. Darkly toned. Very fine.