MOROCCO, 'Alawi Sharifs. temp. Isma'il al-Samin (?), AH 1082-1139 / AD 1672-1727 (?). Amulet (Gold, 31 mm, 4.48 g, 12 h), imitating a Merinid dinar. Miknasa (Meknes). Undated.. Within two concentric squares, ‘bism Allāh al-raḥmān / al-raḥīm wa ṣalla Allāh / ʿalā sayyidinā Muḥammad / lā ilāha illā Allāh lā’ (‘In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. May Allah bless our lord Muhammad. There is no deity but Allah. No’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘ḍuriba bi Miknāsa – lā ilāha illā Allāh – lā ḥawl wa lā quwwa[t] – illā billāh illā Allāh’ (‘Struck in Miknasa. There is no deity but Allah. There is no power and no strength except with Allah. Except Allah’ in Arabic). Rev. Within two concentric squares, ‘lā ilāha illā Allāh / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / Allāh akbar wa lā [ilāha] illā / lā ilāha [illā] Allāh lā ill[ā]’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Allah is the Greatest. There is no deity but, there is no deity but Allah. No but [redundant repetition]’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘lā ilāha [illā] Allāh – lā Allāh illā ilāha [wrong word order] – ḍuriba bi Miknāsa – lā ilāha illā Allāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. There is no deity but Allah. Struck in Miknasa. There is no deity but Allah’ in Arabic). Album 29 (2017), 251. Pierced twice, otherwise, about extremely fine.