Dirham - Nejm al-Din Alpi ibn Timurtash ibn Eet Ghazi ibn Artuk

Nejm al-Din Alpi ruled Mardin from 1152 to 1176, a reign defined largely by his extraordinary success against the Crusaders — most notably his capture of Joscelin III of Edessa in 1164, whom he held for ransom and eventual release to Nur ad-Din. The Artuqid branch at Mardin operated in permanent tension with the Zengids to their north and west, and Alpi spent much of his reign threading that political needle while maintaining effective local autonomy.

The Artuqids were among the most prolific issuers of figured copper coinage in the medieval Islamic world, continuing pre-Islamic iconographic traditions that most contemporaries had long abandoned.