ISLAMIC, al-Maghreb (North Africa). Marinids. temp. Abu'l-Hasan 'Ali, AH 731-749 / AD 1331-1348. Dinar (Gold, 32 mm, 4.44 g), With the Nasrid term ‘lā ghālib illā Allāh’, Sijilmasa (Segilmesa), without date. Within a square, ‘bism Allāh al-raḥmān al-raḥīm / ṣalla Allāh ʿalā Muḥammad / lā ilāha illā Allāh / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / al-ʾamr kulluhū lillāh’ (‘In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. May Allah bless Muhammad. There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. The entire affair belongs to 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. ‘al-shukr lillāh / wa al-minnat lillāh / wa al-ʿaẓamat lillāh / wa lā ghālib illā Allāh / wa al-ʾamr kulluhū lillāh’ (‘Thanks be to Allah, and gratefulness be to Allah, and grandeur be to Allah, and there is no overcomer save Allah, and the entire affair belongs to Allah’ in Arabic); in the margin within a circle, ‘ḍuriba bi madīnat / Sijilmāsa / ḥarasahā / Allāh taʿālā’ (‘Struck in the city of Sijilmasa, may Allah, the Exalted, protect it’ in Arabic). Album 528.2. Areas of weakness and some doubling on the reverse, otherwise, good very fine.

From a European collection, formed before 2005.