ISLAMIC, Ayyubids. Egypt. al-Salih Ayyub, AH 636-647 / AD 1238-1249. Dirham (Silver, 22 mm, 2.91 g, 3 h), square-in-circle type, Dimashq, AH 636 = 1238/9. Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Mustansir billah (AH 623-640 / AD 1226-1242) within a square, ‘al-imām al-Mustanṣir / billāh Abū Jaʿfar / al-Manṣūr amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘Imam al-Mustansir billah Abu Jaʿfar al-Mansur, Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘lā ilāha illā / Allāh waḥdahū / lā sharīka lahū / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah’ in Arabic). Rev. Within a square, ‘al-malik al-Ṣāliḥ / Najm al-Dunyā wa al-Dīn / Ayyūb ibn Muḥammad’ (‘King al-Salih Najm al-Dunya wa al-Din Ayyub son of Muhammad’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘bism Allāh / ḍuriba bi Dimashq / sana sitt wa / thalāthīn [wa] sitta miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. Struck in Dimashq in the year 636’ in Arabic). Album 823.1. Rare. Somewhat rough, otherwise, very fine.