498CHL22) " Cursed is he who abuses this dirham " !!! هذا الدرهم ملعون من يعايره
Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Mardin). Qutb al-Din Il-Ghazi II. AH 572-580 / AD 1176-1184. AE Dirham (33.5 mm, 15.27 grms). With phrase hadha al-dirham ma'lun man yu'ayyaruhu (cursed is he who abuses this dirham). Unlisted (Mardin[?]) mint. Dated AH 578 (AD 1182/3). Two Byzantine-style diademed and draped facing busts, resembling the coins of Heraclius and his son; AH date in margin / Name of Abbasid caliph, partial mint formula and name and pedigree of Qutb al-Din Il-Ghazi II in five lines across field and in margins. Whelan Type I, 46-7; S&S Type 32.2; Album 1828.2; ICV 1205. Dark green-brown patina. Good VF/XF.