ISLAMIC, Arabia. Zuray'ids. 'Imran ibn Muhammad, AH 550-561 / AD 1155-1165. Dinar (Gold, 22 mm, 2.31 g, 9 h), posthumous issue, ʿAdan, AH 562 = 1166/7. Within three concentric circles, Shiʿa kalima, ‘lā ilāha illā Allāh / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / ʿAlī walī Allāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Ali is the friend of Allah’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba bi ʿAdan sana ithnatayn wa sittīn wa khamsa miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. Struck in ʿAdan in the year 562’ in Arabic). Rev. Within two concentric circles, ‘awḥad mulūk / al-zaman malik al-ʿarab / wa al-Yaman ʿImrān / ibn Muḥammad’ (‘The unique of the kings of the age, king of the Arabs and of Yemen, ʿImran son of Muhammad’ in Arabic); in the margin, in a blundered style, ‘wa man yatawakkal ʿalā Allāh fahuwa ḥasbuhū inna Allāh bālighu amrihī qad jaʿala Allāh likulli shayʾin qadran’ (‘And whoever relies on Allah, He is sufficient for him. Verily Allah attains His purpose. Allah indeed has appointed a measure for everything’ in Arabic; Qurʾān 65: 3). Album 1080I. Extremely rare. Areas of weakness and with a ragged edge, otherwise, good very fine.