ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Lu'lu'ids. Badr al-Din Lu'lu, AH 631-657 / AD 1234-1259. Dinar (Gold, 25 mm, 2.55 g, 9 h), al-Mawṣil al-Maḥrūsa, date off flan. Within a dotted circle, ‘Luʾluʾ / lā ilāha illā Allāh / waḥdahū lā sharīka lahū / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / ṣalla Allāh ʿalayh / wa sallam’ (‘Luʾluʾ. There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. May Allah bless him and grant him peace’ in Arabic); to right and left, ‘al-malik al-raḥīm – Badr al-Dīn’ (‘The merciful king, Badr al-Din’ in Arabic); in the margin, traces of ‘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). Rev. Citing the Great Mongol Möngke (AH 649-657 / AD 1251-1259) as overlord, ‘Munkū / qāʾān al-aʿẓam / khodāvand-e ālam / pādešāh-e ru-ye / zamīn zīdat ʿaẓamatuhū’ (‘Möngke, the supreme khan, master of the world [and] king on the earth. May his grandeur increase!’ in Arabic and Persian); in the inner margin, mint and date formula, only partly legible; in the outer margin, traces of ‘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). Album 1871M. Rare. Very fine.