ISLAMIC, Mongols. Ilkhanids. Hulagu, AH 654-663 / AD 1256-1265. Dirham (Silver, 28 mm, 2.61 g), Posthumous issue, al-Mawsil, AH 664 = 1265/6. Within a circle, ‘lā ilāha illā Allāh / waḥdahū lā sharīka lahū / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / ṣalla Allāh ʿalayh / wa ālihī wa sallam’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. May Allah bless him and his household and grant them peace’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘huwa alladhī arsalahū bi al-hudā wa dīn al-ḥaqq liyuẓhirahū ʿalā al-dīn kullih wa law kariha al-mushrikūn’ (‘He [i.e. Allah] is the one who sent him with guidance and the religion of truth, so that He may make it overcome all religions, even though the unbelievers may dislike it’ in Arabic). Rev. Within a dotted circle, ‘qāʾān / al-aʿẓam Hūlākū / īlkhān al-muʿẓẓam mālik / riqāb al-umam khallada / Allāh mulkahumā’ (‘The supreme Khan; Hulagu, the great Ilkhan, owner of the necks of the peoples. May Allah perpetuate their kingdom’ in Arabic); ‘The supreme Khan’ refers to Hulagu’s overlord, the Great Mongol Möngke (AH 649-657 / AD 1251-1259); in the margin, ‘bism Allāh al-raḥmān al-raḥīm ḍuriba hādhā al-dirham al-mubārak bi al-Mawṣil sana arbaʿ wa sittīn’ (‘In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. This auspicious dirham was struck in al-Mawsil in the year [6]64’ in Arabic). Album 2122.2. Areas of weakness and with some scratches and deposits, otherwise, good very fine.