ISLAMIC, Fatimids. al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, AH 386-411 / AD 996-1021. Dinar (Gold, 23 mm, 4.05 g, 9 h), second series, al-Mansuriyya, AH 404 = AD 1013/4. Within a central circle, ‘Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / ʿAlī walī Allāh’ (‘Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Ali is the friend of Allah’ in Arabic); inner margin, ‘lā ilāha illā Allāh waḥdahū lā sharīka lahū’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him’ in Arabic); outer margin, very 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). Rev. Within a central circle, ‘al-Ḥākim bi amr Allāh / amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘al-Hakim bi amr Allah, Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); inner margin, ‘ʿabd Allāh wa waliyyuhū al-Manṣūr Abū ʿAlī al-Imām’ (‘The servant of Allah and His friend, al-Mansur Abu ʿAli, the Imam’ in Arabic); outer margin, mint and date formula of which ‘bi al-Manṣūriyya sana arbaʿ wa arbaʿa miʾa’ (‘in al-Mansuriyya in the year 404’ in Arabic) is legible. Album 709.2. Struck from somewhat worn dies, slightly clipped and with minor doubling, otherwise, very fine.