ISLAMIC, Persia (Post-Seljuk). Khwarizm Shahs. 'Ala al-Din Muhammad II, AH 596-617 / AD 1200-1220. Broad Dirham (Silver, 27 mm, 6.24 g), Ghazna type, date effaced. Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Nasir li-din Allah (AH 575-622 / AD 1180-1225); ‘lā ilāh-a illā Allāh / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / al-Nāṣir li-dīn Allāh / amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. al-Nasir li-din Allah, Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); illegible marginal legend. Rev. Citing Muhammad as al-Sulṭān al-Aʿẓam / ʿAlā al-Dunyā wa al-Dīn / Abuʾl-Fatḥ Muḥammad / ibn al-Sulṭān; illegible marginal legend. Album 1715. Rare. Areas of weakness, otherwise, very fine.

From the collection of Dr. D. Löer, formed since the 1970s.

This type was struck after Muhammad seized Ghazna from the Ghorid ruler, Taj al-Din Yildiz, in AH 612 = 1215/6.