ISLAMIC, al-Maghreb (North Africa). Marinids. Abu Sa'id 'Uthman II, AH 710-731 / AD 1310-1331. Dinar (Gold, 32 mm, 4.63 g, 6 h), Fas, without date. Within a square, ‘bism Allāh al-raḥmān al-raḥīm / ṣalla Allāh ʿalā Muḥammad wa ālihī / al-ḥamd lillāh waḥdahū / lā ilāha illā Allāh / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh’ (‘In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. May Allah bless Muhammad and his household. Praise be to Allah, the One. There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah’ in Arabic); in the margin within a circle, ‘wa ilāhukum / ilāh wāḥid / lā ilāha illā huwa / al-raḥmān al-raḥīm’ (‘And your God is One God; there is no God save Him, the Beneficent, the Merciful’ in Arabic; Qurʾān 2: 163). Rev. Within a square, ‘ḍuriba bi madīnat Fās / ʿan amr ʿabd Allāh / abī Saʿīd ʿUthmān / amīr al-muslimīn / ayyadahū Allāh wa naṣarahū’ (‘Struck in the city of Fas, by the order of the Servant of Allah, Abu Saʿid ʿUthman, the amir of the Muslims, may Allah help him and grant him victory’ in Arabic); in the margin within a circle, ‘huwa al-awwal wa al-ʾākhir / wa al-ẓāhir wa al-bāṭin / wa huwa bi kulli / shayʾin ʿalīm’ (‘He is the First and the Last, and the Outward and the Inward; and He is Knower of all things’ in Arabic; Qurʾān 57: 3). Album 527. Rare. Traces of mounting, otherwise, very fine.

From a European collection, formed before 2005.