ARTUKIDS OF MARDIN Nejm al-Din Alpi Ibn Timurtasch, 1152-1176. Bronze-Dirhem n. d. Two draped male busts with diadems facing. Rev. Virgin crowning Byzantine emperor. 16.92 g. Artuk 1219. Edhem 32. Broad flan. Brown patina. Very fine.. Modeled after a nomisma of the Byzantine emperor Romanus III, 1028-1034.
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