ISLAMIC, Mongols. Ilkhanids. Mahmud Ghazan I, AH 694-703 / AD 1295-1304. Dinar (Gold, 23 mm, 4.24 g), pre-reform type, Tabriz, date off flan. Within a circle, ‘al-ḥamd lillāh / lā ilāha illā Allāh / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / ṣalla Allāh ʿalayh / wa sallam’ (‘Praise be to Allah. There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. May Allah bless him and grant him peace’ in Arabic); mint and date formula around. Rev. Within a dotted circle, ‘pādishāh-i jahān / al-sulṭān al-aʿẓam / Qazān Maḥmūd / khalada mulkuhū / Tabrīz’ (‘King of the world’ in Persian, ‘The Supreme Sultan, Ghazan Mahmud. May his kingdom be perpetuated. Tabriz’ in Arabic). Album 2167. Diler Ga-259. Very rare. Struck slightly off center and with areas of weakness, otherwise, good very fine.