ISLAMIC, Ayyubids. Damascus. al-Salih I Ismail, AH 635, 637-43 / AD 1237, 1239-1245. Dirham (Silver, 21 mm, 2.72 g, 1 h), Dimashq (Damascus), date off flan. Within a square, ‘al-malik al-Ṣāliḥ / ʿImād al-Dunyā wa al-Dīn / Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Bakr’ (‘King al-Salih ʿImad al-Dunya wa al-Din Ismaʿil son of Abu Bakr’ in Arabic); mint and date formula in the margin, ‘bism Allāh / ḍuriba bi Dimashq / … / …’ (‘In the name of Allah. Struck in Dimashq …’ in Arabic). Rev. Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Mustansir billah (AH 623-640 / AD 1226-1242) within a square, ‘al-Imām / al-Mustanṣir / billāh Abū Jaʿfar / al-Manṣūr amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘Imam al-Mustansir billah Abu Jaʿfar al-Mansur, the Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘[lā ilāha illā] / Allāh waḥdahū / lā sharīka [lahū / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh]’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah’ in Arabic). Album 848.1. Areas of weakness, otherwise, extremely fine.