ISLAMIC, al-Maghreb (North Africa). Marinids. Abu Sa'id 'Uthman II, AH 710-731 / AD 1310-1331. Dinar (Gold, 32 mm, 4.55 g), Sijilmasa (Segilmesa), without date. Within a square, ‘bism Allāh al-raḥmān al-raḥīm / ṣalla Allāh ʿalā Muḥammad wa ālihī / al-ḥamd lillāh waḥdahū / lā ilāha illā Allāh / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh’ (‘In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. May Allah bless Muhammad and his household. Praise be to Allah, the One. There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah’ in Arabic); in the margin within a circle, ‘huwa al-awwal wa al-ʾākhir / wa al-ẓāhir wa al-bāṭin / wa huwa bi kulli / shayʾin ʿalīm’ (‘He is the First and the Last, and the Outward and the Inward; and He is Knower of all things’ in Arabic; Qurʾān 57: 3). Rev. Above, ‘ḍuriba bi madīnat’ (‘Struck in the city of’ in Arabic); within a square, ‘Sijilmāsa amanahā Allāh / ʿan amr ʿabd Allāh / abī Saʿīd ʿUthmān / amīr al-muslimīn / ayyadahū Allāh wa naṣarahū’ (‘Sijilmasa, may Allah protect it, by the order of the Servant of Allah, Abu Saʿid ʿUthman, the amir of the Muslims, may Allah help him and grant him victory’ in Arabic); in the margin within a circle, ‘wa ilāhukum ilāh wāḥid / lā ilāha illā huwa / al-raḥmān al-raḥīm’ (‘And your God is One God; there is no God save Him, the Beneficent, the Merciful’ in Arabic; Qurʾān 2: 163). Album 527. Rare. Fresh and sharp. Minor areas of weakness, otherwise, virtually as struck.