ISLAMIC, Egypt & Syria (Pre-Fatimid). Ikhshidids. Muhammad al-Ikhshid, AH 323-334 / AD 935-946. Dinar (Gold, 23 mm, 4.16 g, 10 h), Filastin, AH 331 = AD 942/3. Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Muttaqi lillah (AH 329-333 / AD 940-944) on the reverse, and the caliph’s son and heir, Abu Mansur, on the obverse, ‘lā ilāha illā / Allāh waḥdahū / lā sharīka lahū / Abū Manṣūr ibn / amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him. Abu Mansur son of the Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); in the inner margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-dīnār bi Filasṭīn sana iḥdā wa thalāthīn wa thalātha miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This dinar was struck in Filastin in the year 331’ in Arabic); 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). Rev. ‘li-llāh / Muḥammad / rasūl / Allāh / al-Muttaqī lillāh / al-Ikhshīd’ (‘For Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. al-Muttaqi lillah. al-Ikhshid’ in Arabic); in the margin, weak 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). Album 674. Rare. Bumped and scratched, otherwise, about very fine.