ISLAMIC, Persia (Post-Seljuk). Khwarizm Shahs. 'Ala al-Din Muhammad II, AH 596-617 / AD 1200-1220. Dinar (Gold, 24 mm, 5.00 g, 9 h). Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Nasir li-din Allah (AH 575-622 / AD 1180-1225), ‘lā ilāha illā / Allāh Muḥammad ra/sūl Allāh al-Nā/ṣir li-dīn A/llāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. al-Nasir li-din Allah’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘huwa alladhi arsala rasūlahū bi al-hudā wa dīn al-ḥaqq liyuẓ[hirahū]’ (‘He it is Who sent his messenger with guidance and the religion of truth, so that He may make it overcome [all religions]’ in Arabic; Qurʾān 48: 28). Rev. ‘al-sulṭān al-a/ʿẓam ʿAlā al-Dunyā / wa al-Dīn Abuʾl-Fatḥ / Muḥammad ibn al-sulṭān / Takish’ (‘The supreme sultan ʿAla al-Dunya wa al-Din Abuʾl-Fath Muhammad, son of Sultan Takish’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘ḍuriba hādhā bi tārīkh Ṣafar sana …’ (‘This was struck in [the month of] Safar of the year …’ in Arabic). Album 1712. Minor areas of weakness, otherwise, good very fine.