ISLAMIC, 'Abbasid Caliphate. Al-Ma'mun, AH 193-218 / AD 809-833. Dinar (Gold, 18 mm, 4.15 g, 6 h), [Misr], AH 196 = 811/2. Citing ʿAbbad, ‘lā ilāha illā / Allāh waḥdahū / lā sharīka lahū / ʿAbbād’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him. ʿAbbad’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘Muḥammad rasūl Allāh arsalahū bi al-hudā wa dīn al-ḥaqq liyuẓhirahū ʿalā al-dīn kullih’ (‘Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. He sent him with guidance and the religion of truth, so that He may make it overcome all religions’ in Arabic). Rev. ‘li’l-khalīfa / Muḥammad / rasūl / Allāh / al-Maʾmūn’ (‘Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. For Caliph al-Maʾmun’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-dīnār sana sitt wa tisʿīn wa miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This dinar was struck in the year 196’ in Arabic). Album 222.2. Rare. Several scratches and with a few scrapes, otherwise, fine.

From a West German collection, formed since the 1960s.