ISLAMIC, Ayyubids. Egypt. al-Nasir I Salah al-Din Yusuf (Saladin), AH 564-589 / AD 1169-1193. Dirham (Silver, 21 mm, 2.72 g, 10 h), square-in-circle type, Dimashq, AH 575 = AH 1179/80. Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Mustadi bi-amr Allah (AH 566-575 / AD 1170-1180) within a square, ‘al-imām / al-Mustaḍī / bi-amr Allāh a/mīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘Imam al-Mustadi bi-amr Allah, Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic)’; around, ‘lā ilāha illā / Allāh waḥdahū / Muḥammad rasū/l Allāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah’ in Arabic). Rev. Within a square, ‘al-malik al-Nāṣir / Ṣalāḥ al-Du/nyā wa al-Dīn’ (‘King al-Nasir Salah al-Dunya wa al-Din’ in Arabic): around, ‘Yūsuf ibn Ayyū/b ḍuriba bi Dimashq / sana khams wa / sabʿīn wa khamsa miʾa’ (‘Yusuf son of Ayyub. Struck in Dimashq in the year 575’ in Arabic). Album 787.1. Rare. Areas of weakness and with light corrosion and some minor scratches, otherwise, very fine.