ISLAMIC, Persia (Pre-Seljuq). Qarakhanids (United). Nasr ibn 'Ali, circa AH 383-403 / AD 993-1012. Fals (Bronze, 28 mm, 2.69 g), Ferghana, AH 401 = 1010/1. Within a tricornered geometric design, ‘pādshā[h]’ (‘king’ in Persian); around, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā - al-fals bi Farghāna - sana aḥad arbaʿ’ (‘In the name of Allah. This fals was struck in Ferghana in the year 4[0]1’ in Arabic). Rev. ‘li-llāh / Muḥammad / rasūl / Allāh’ (‘To Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘mimmā amara bihī al-amīr Naṣr ibn ʿAlī mawlā amīr al-muʾm[inīn]’ (‘From that ordered by Amir Nasr ibn ʿAli, vassal of the Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic). Album 3303. Rare. Areas of weakness and with a flan crack and a small hole, otherwise, very fine.