726CL3Z) ISLAMIC FIGURAL ICONOGRAPHY; ARTUQIDS OF MARDIN, QUTB AL-DIN II GHAZI II, 572-580 AH/ 1176-1184 AD, AE DIRHAM 27 mm, 7.74 grms, TYPE SS 31. IN FINE+ CONDITION.
Obv.: Head to right, looking upward, wearing an ornate diadem of linked squares,within a beaded square; in the four arcs of the margin, the ruler's pedigree back four generations (continued from the reverse) inscribed at the top, bottom, left and right; all withtin a beaded circle.
Rev.: Five-line legend in Naskhi script including five laqabs and the ism of the ruler starting in the second line and finishing at the top (continuing in the obverse margin), all within a beaded circle.