ISLAMIC, Fatimids. al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah, AH 495-524 / AD 1101-1130. Dinar (Gold, 22 mm, 4.63 g, 9 h), al-Iskandariyya, AH 495 = AD 1101/2. Within a central circle, ‘ʿāl / ghāya’ (‘Extremely high [quality]’ in Arabic); in the inner margin, ‘lā ilāha illā Allāh Muḥammad rasūl Allāh ʿAlī walī Allāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Ali is the friend of Allah’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘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-imām / al-Manṣūr’ (‘Imam al-Mansur’ in Arabic); in the inner margin, ‘Abū ʿAlī al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘Abu ʿAli al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah, Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); in the outer margin, ‘bism Allāh al-raḥmān al-raḥīm ḍuriba hādhā al-dīnār bi al-Iskandariyya sana khams wa tisʿīn wa arbaʿa miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. This dinar was struck in al-Iskandariyya in the year 495’ in Arabic). Album 729. Light scratches, otherwise, very fine.