ISLAMIC, Mongols. Ilkhanids. Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad Khudabanda Öljeytü, AH 703-716 / AD 1304-1316. 2 Dirhams (Silver, 25 mm, 3.90 g, 1 h), Type C, Kashan, AH 714 = 1314/5. Shiʿa kalima in a hexafoil, ‘Allāh / lā ilāha illā / Muḥammad / rasūl Allāh / ʿAlī walī Allāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Ali is the friend of Allah’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘Allāhumma ṣalli ʿalā Muḥammad’ (‘O Allah! Bless Muhammad’ in Arabic), followed by the names of the twelve Shiʿa imams. Rev. Within a heptafoil, ‘ḍuriba / fī dawla al-mawlā al-sulṭān / al-aʿẓam mālik riqāb / al-umam ghiyāth al-dunyā wa al-dīn / Ūljāytū Sulṭān Muḥammad / khallada Allāh mulkahū’ (‘Struck in the state of the Lord, the Supreme Sultan, Owner of the Necks of the Peoples, Helper of the World and the Religion, Uljaytu Sultan Muhammad. May Allah perpetuate his kingdom’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘ḍarb / madīnat / Kāshān / sana / arbaʿ / ʿashar wa / sabʿa miʾa’ (‘Struck in the city of Kashan in the year 714’ in Arabic). Album 2188. Areas of weakness, otherwise, good very fine.
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