Dirham - Nasir al-Din Artuq Arslan

Artuq Arslan ruled Mardin for nearly five decades — an unusually long reign for a dynasty that spent much of its existence maneuvering between Ayyubid and Seljuq pressure. His copper dirhams were struck in substantial volume across that span, which is why so many survive, yet die-matching them to specific decades within his reign remains genuinely difficult without accompanying hoard documentation.

The Artuqids were among the last Anatolian dynasties to sustain a serious figural coinage tradition in copper, a practice the surrounding Islamic powers had largely abandoned.