NGC Certification # 2950076-004
 
Ayyubids (Main line in Cairo). al-Nasir Salah al-Din Yusuf (Saladin). AH 567-589 / AD 1171-1193. AV Dinar (19.6mm, 3.89 g, 10h). Al-Iskandariya mint. Date off flan. Citing the caliph al-Mustadi. Album 785.1; ICV 889.
 
Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub, commonly known as Saladin, was a Kurdish commander and political leader. He was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty and the first sultan of both Egypt and Syria. An important figure of the Third Crusade, he spearheaded the Muslim military effort against the Crusader states in the Levant.