ISLAMIC, Persia (Pre-Seljuq). Samanids. Nuh II ibn Mansur, AH 365-387 / AD 976-997. Fals (Bronze, 26 mm, 2.82 g), Balkh, AH 368 = 978/9. Within a dotted circle, ‘li-llāh / Muḥammad / rasūl Allāh / Nūḥ ibn Manṣūr’ (‘To Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Nuh son of Mansur’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘li-llāh al-amr min qabl wa min baʿd wa yawmaʾidhin yafraḥu al-muʾminūn bi naṣr [Allāh]’ (‘To Allah belongs the command before and after, and on that day the believers will rejoice with the help of Allah’ in Arabic; Qurʾān 30: 4-5). Rev. Citing the commander-in-chief Faʾiq in the center of a five-pointed star, ‘Fāʾiq’ (‘Faʾiq’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-fals bi Balkh sana thamān wa sittīn wa thalātha miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This fals was struck in Balkh in the year 368’ in Arabic). Album 1471. Rare. Some deposits, otherwise, very fine.