ISLAMIC, Persia (Post-Seljuk). Khwarizm Shahs. 'Ala al-Din Muhammad II, AH 596-617 / AD 1200-1220. Dinar (Gold, 28 mm, 6.00 g). Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Nasir li-din Allah (AH 575-622 / AD 1180-1225). ‘lā ilāha illā / Allāh Muḥammad / rasūl Allāh / al-Nāṣir li-dīn / Allāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah/ al-Nasir li-din Allah’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘huwa alladhi arsala [rasūlahū bi al-hudā wa dīn] al-ḥaqq liyuẓhirahū ʿalā al-dīn kullih’ (‘He it is Who sent his messenger with guidance and the religion of truth, so that He may make it overcome all religions’ in Arabic; Qurʾān 48: 28). Rev. ‘al-sulṭān al-aʿẓam / ʿAlā al-Dunyā wa al-Dīn / Abuʾl-Fatḥ Muḥammad / ibn al-sulṭān Takish’ (‘The supreme sultan ʿAla al-Dunya wa al-Din Abuʾl-Fath Muhammad, son of Sultan Takish’ in Arabic); illegible marginal legend. Album 1712. Zeno-6351 (this coin). Struck slightly off center and with areas of weakness, otherwise, very fine.