ISLAMIC, Persia (Pre-Seljuq). Buwayhids (Buyids). Baha' al-Dawla Abu Nasr Firuz Kharshah, AH 379-403 / AD 989-1012. Dinar (Gold, 25 mm, 3.98 g, 3 h), Suq al-Ahwaz, AH 399 = 1008/9. Citing the ruler’s titulature, continued on the reverse, ‘lā ilāha illā Allāh / waḥdahū lā sharīka lahū / al-malik Bahāʾ al-Dawla / wa Ḍiyāʾ al-Milla / Abū Naṣr’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him. King Bahaʾ al-Dawla wa Diyaʾ al-Milla Abu Nasr’ in Arabic); inner margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-dīnār bi Sūq al-Ahwāz sana tisʿ wa tisʿīn wa thalātha miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This dinar was struck in Suq al-Ahwaz in the year 399’ 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 the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Qadir billah (AH 381-422 / AD 991-1031), ‘li-llāh / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / al-Qādir billāh / Shāhānshāh / Qawām al-Dīn’ (‘To Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. al-Qadir billah. King of Kings Qawam al-Din’ in Arabic, with the Persian word ‘Shāhānshāh’); 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 1573. Struck from worn dies and with some scrapes, otherwise, very fine.