Hephthalites. King of Kabul (~510-560)

BI Drachm, 3,59 g, 26 mm

Vs: Male bust (Napki-Type) to right, head of bull (head of buffalo) above.

Rs: Fire altar between two guard figures standing face to face with swords, wheels above it.

Hephthalites, "White Huns" (~5.-6th century)

AE/BI Drachm, 3,15 g, 30 mm

Mint: Gandhara

Av: Male bust to r. "NAPKI MALKA" Type

Rv: fire altar between guardian figures with swords.

very fine, attractive bust!

Ref.: Mitchiner 1492.

Artuqiden of Mardin, Qutb al-Din Il-Ghazi II, AH 572-580 / AD 1176-1184

AE Dirham, 15.60 g, 33 mm

Mint: Mardin

Obv: Two busts in byzantine style frontal

Rv: Name and title in kufic legend

Very Fine

Ref: Spengler & Sayles 32.2.

Artuqids of Mardin, Qutb al-Din Il-Ghazi II, AH 572-580 / AD 1176-1184

AE Dirham, 11,24 g, 29 mm

Mint: Mardin

Av: Crowned Centaur archer walking to right, arrow aimed at the wide-open jaws of a dragon emerging from the centaur's tail

Rv: Multi-line legend, names and title

Artuqids of Mardin, Qutb al-Din Il-Ghazi II, AH 572-580 / AD 1176-1184

AE Dirham, 11,98 g, 32 mm

Mint: Mardin

Av: Bust in square rhombus

Rv: Five-line legend, name and title.

Artuqids, Quth al-Din, Sukman II, ( AH 584 = AD 1188-1189)

AE Dirham, 10,57 g, 29 mm 

Mint: Uncertain mint

Av: Two diademed Roman style male busts in profile, back to back

Rv: Four-lined legend citing the Ayyubid overlord Saladin. 

good fine, Rare!

Ref: S/S 13; Album 1822.2; ICV 1185.

Sri Lanka, Ceylon Parakrama Bahu II. (1236-1271)

Dutch East India Company.

AE Massa, 4,34 g, 19 mm

Av: King reclining to right, (or "stylized dancing figure"), holding aloft a sankh (conch); legend in Nagari characters to right

Rv: King enthroned facing, head right, holding aloft a solar symbol; altar, flame, 5 pellets and lotus in fields.

good very fine, nice green patina!

Ref: Mitchiner NIS 845 - 846.