ISLAMIC, Fatimids. al-Mustansir billah, AH 427-487 / AD 1036-1094. Dinar (Gold, 26 mm, 4.18 g), first standard type, al-Mansuriyya, AH 4[...]. Within a central circle, ‘lā ilāha illā Allāh / waḥdahū lā sharīka lahū / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / ʿAlī walī Allāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Ali is the friend of Allah’ in Arabic); in the margin, very weak traces of ‘Muḥammad rasūl Allāh arsalahū bi al-hudā wa dīn al-ḥaqq liyuẓhirahū ʿalā al-dīn kullih’ (‘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’ in Arabic). Rev. Within a central circle, ‘al-imām / Maʿadd Abū Tamīm / al-Mustanṣir billāh / amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘Imam Maʿadd Abu Tamim al-Mustansir billah, Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); in the margin, mint and date formula, of which only the mint name is legible. Album 719.1. Struck from somewhat worn dies, otherwise, very fine.