ISLAMIC, al-Maghreb (North Africa). Marinids. Abu Sa'id 'Uthman II, AH 710-731 / AD 1310-1331. Dinar (Gold, 31 mm, 4.54 g), Sijilmasa (Segilmesa), without date. Within a square, ‘bism Allāh al-raḥmān al-raḥīm / ṣalla Allāh ʿalā Muḥammad wa ālihī / al-ḥamd lillāh waḥdahū / lā ilāha illā Allāh / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh’ (‘In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. May Allah bless Muhammad and his household. Praise be to Allah, the One. There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of 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. Above, ‘ḍuriba bi madīnat’ (‘Struck in the city of’ in Arabic); within a square, ‘Sijilmāsa amanahā Allāh / ʿan amr ʿabd Allāh / abī Saʿīd ʿUthmān / amīr al-muslimīn / ayyadahū Allāh wa naṣarahū’ (‘Sijilmasa, may Allah protect it, by the order of the Servant of Allah, Abu Saʿid ʿUthman, the amir of the Muslims, may Allah help him and grant him victory’ 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). Album 527. Rare. Struck slightly off center and with areas of weakness, otherwise, very fine.

From a European collection, formed before 2005.