ISLAMIC, al-Maghreb (North Africa). Almoravids (al-Murabitun). 'Ali ibn Yusuf, AH 500-537 / AD 1107-1142. Dinar (Gold, 26 mm, 4.10 g, 11 h), Sijilmasa (Segilmesa), AH 523(?) = 1129. Citing his son Sir as heir. Within a circle, ‘lā ilāha illā Allāh / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / amīr al-muslimīn ʿAlī ibn Yūsuf / walī ʿaḥduhū al-amīr / Sīr’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. The Commander of the Muslims, Ali son of Yusuf. His heir Sir’ 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 Sijilmāsa sana thalāth wa ʿishrīn wa khamsa miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This dinar was struck in Sijilmasa in the year 523’ in Arabic). Album 466.2. Double struck, otherwise, good very fine.

Ex Leu Web Auction 26, 8-13 July 2023, 6201 and previously from a European collection, formed before 2005.