ISLAMIC, Caucasus (Post-Seljuk). Pishkinids. Mahmud ibn Pishkin, circa AH 608-623 / AD 1212-1226. Dirham (Bronze, 30 mm, 17.08 g), [Ahar], AH 6[12] = 1215/6. Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Nasir li-din Allah (AH 575-622 / AD 1180-1225), ‘[lā] ilāha illā Allāh / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / ṣalla Allāh ʿalayh / al-Nāṣir li-dīn Allāh / amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. May Allah bless him. al-Nasir li-din Allah, the Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); mint and date around; all within a circle. Rev. Citing the Ildegizid overlord Uzbek ibn Muhammad (AH 607-622 / AD 1211-1225), ‘Atābak al-aʿẓam / Uzbak ibn Muḥammad / malik al-umarāʾ / Nuṣrat al-dīn Maḥmūd / ibn Bishkīn ibn Muḥammad’ (‘The supreme Atabek, Uzbek ibn Muhammad. King of the rulers, Nusrat al-din Mahmud, son of Pishkin, son of Muhammad’ in Arabic); the legend around partly legible, above ‘yamīn amīr’, to the left ‘al-muʾminīn’ (‘the right hand of the Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic). Album 1916. Areas of weakness and with the reverse struck slightly off center, otherwise, good very fine.