Lot 3367
ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Mardin). Najm al-Din Alpi, AH 547-572 / AD 1152-1176. Dirham (Bronze, 29 mm, 11.92 g, 1 h). Diademed head of Antiochos VII to right, ‘Najm al-Dīn’ on the neck. Rev. In the field and around, ‘malik al-umarā / Abuʾl-Muẓaffar / Alpī ibn / Timirtāsh ibn / Īl Ghāzī / ibn Urtuq’ (‘King of the rulers, Abuʾl-Muzaffar Alpi, son of Timirtash, son of Il Ghazi, son of Urtuq’ in Arabic). Album 1827.2. Deposits and with some scratches, otherwise, very fine.

From a West German collection, formed since the 1960s.


The head on the obverse of this issue was copied from tetradrachms of the Seleukid King Antiochos VII (138-129 BC), who lived almost 1300 years before Najm al-Din Alpi. Time-wise, this is the equivalent of the portrait of the Byzantine emperor Leo III (717-741) appearing on a modern coin!
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Closing time: 10-Dec-24, 14:02:00 CET
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