ISLAMIC, al-Maghreb (North Africa). Marinids. Abu Sa'id 'Uthman II, AH 710-731 / AD 1310-1331. Dinar (Gold, 31 mm, 4.47 g), Sijilmasa (Segilmesa), no 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, ‘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). Rev. Within a square, ‘ḍuriba bi madīnat / Sijilmāsa ʿan / amr ʿabd Allāh abī / Saʿīd ʿUthmān / ayyadahū Allāh wa naṣarahū’ (‘Struck in the city of Sijilmasa by the order of the Servant of Allah, Abu Saʿid ʿUthman, 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. Areas of weakness, otherwise, very fine.



The obverse and reverse marginal legends of this specimen are identical.