ISLAMIC, al-Maghreb (North Africa). Almoravids (al-Murabitun). 'Ali ibn Yusuf, AH 500-537 / AD 1107-1142. Dinar (Gold, 26 mm, 4.09 g, 5 h), Murrakush (Marrakesh), AH 519 = 1125/6. Within a circle, ‘lā ilāha illā Allāh / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / amīr al-muslimīn ʿAlī / ibn Yūsuf’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. The Commander of the Muslims, Ali son of Yusuf’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘wa man yabtagh ghayr al-ʾIslām dīnan falan yuqbala minhu wa huwa fī al-ʾākhirati min al-khāsirīn’ (‘And whoever desires a religion other than Islam, it will not be accepted from him, and in the hereafter he will be among the losers’ in Arabic; Qurʾān 3: 85). Rev. Within a circle, ‘al-imām / ʿabd / Allāh / amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘The Imam, the Servant of Allah, the Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-dīnār bi Murrākush ʿām tisʿa ʿashar wa khamsa miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This dinar was struck in Marrakesh in the year 519’ in Arabic). Album 466.1. The flan slightly wavy and with light doubling, otherwise, good very fine.

Ex Leu Web Auction 26, 8-13 July 2023, 6199 and previously from a European collection, formed before 2005.