ISLAMIC, Ayyubids. Yemen. Mu'izz al-Din Ism'ail, AH 593-598 / AD 1197-1202. Dirham (Silver, 22 mm, 2.04 g, 4 h), Taʿizz, AH 598 = 1201/2. In an 8-pointed square within a circle, ‘lā ilāha illā Allāh / Muḥammad rasūl / Allāh ṣalla Allāh / ʿalayh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. May Allah bless him’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘bism Allāh al-raḥmān al-raḥīm ḍuriba hādhā al-dirham bi Taʿizz sana thamān wa tisʿīn wa kham[sa miʾa]’ (‘In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. This dirham was struck in Taʿizz in the year 598’ in Arabic). Rev. In an 8-pointed square within a circle, ‘al-imām / al-hādī / ilā al-ḥaqq’ (‘The Imam [and] the Guide to the Truth’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘Abu’l-Faḍl(?) Ismāʿīl ibn Ṭughtakīn al-amawī … amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘Abu’l-Fadl(?) Ismaʿil son of Tughtekin, the Umayyad, …, Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic). Album 1093. Very rare and with attractive calligraphy. Areas of weakness and with some doubling and minor patina and corrosion, otherwise, about extremely fine.