ISLAMIC, Persia (Post-Seljuk). Khwarizm Shahs. 'Ala al-Din Muhammad II, AH 596-617 / AD 1200-1220. Dirham (Silver, 16 mm, 3.12 g, 12 h), Ghazna 'medium' type. Citing the ruler in three lines, ‘ʿAlā al-Dunyā / wa al-Dīn Muḥammad / ibn al-Sulṭān’. Rev. Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Nasir li-din Allah (AH 575-622 / AD 1180-1225) in three lines, ‘al-Nāṣir / li-dīn Allāh / Amīr al-Muʾminīn’ (‘al-Nasir li-dīn Allāh, Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic). Album 1721. Rare. Areas of weakness and with some deposits and a scratch on the obverse, otherwise, good very fine.


This is the prototype for Chingiz Khan’s dirhams of the Ghazna type (Album 1967).