ISLAMIC, 'Abbasid Caliphate. Al-Muqtadi, AH 467-487 / AD 1075-1094. Dinar (Gold, 27 mm, 2.99 g, 6 h), Madinat al-Salam, AH 486 = 1093/4. ‘lā ilāha illā Allāh / waḥdahū lā sharīka lahū / al-imām al-Muqtadī / bi-amr Allāh amīr / al-muʾminīn’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him. Imam al-Muqtadi bi-amr Allah, Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); inner margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-dīnār bi Madīnat al-Salām sana sitt wa thamānīn wa arbaʿa miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This dinar was struck in Madinat al-Salam in the year 486’ in Arabic); outer 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 his son and heir Abu’l-ʿAbbas, ‘li-llāh / Muḥammad / rasūl Allāh / ṣalla Allāh ʿalayh’ (‘For Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. May Allah bless him’ in Arabic); to right and left, ‘Dhukhr al-Dīn – Abu’l-ʿAbbās’ (‘Dhukhr al-Din Abu’l-ʿAbbās’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘Muḥammad rasūl Allāh arsalahū bi al-hudā wa dīn al-ḥaqq liyuẓhirahū ʿalā al-dīn kullih wa law kariha al-mushrikūn’ (‘Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. He 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). Album A266. Very rare. Slightly wavy and with areas of weakness, otherwise, good very fine.