ISLAMIC, Ayyubids. Egypt. al-'Adil I Sayf al-Din Ahmad, AH 592-615 / AD 1196-1218. Dinar (Gold, 20 mm, 3.54 g, 1 h), type A, mint and date effaced. Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Nasir li-din Allah (AH 575-622 / AD 1180-1225) within two concentric circles, ‘al-imām Aḥmad / Abu’l-ʿAbbās / al-Nāṣir li-dīn Allāh / amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘Imam Ahmad Abu’l-ʿAbbas al-Nasir li-din Allah, Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); illegible mint and date formula in the margin. Rev. Citing his son and heir al-Kamil Muhammad within two concentric circles, ‘ʿāl / al-malik al-ʿĀdil / Abū Bakr Muḥammad bin Ayyūb / walī ʿahduhū al-malik / al-Kāmil Muḥammad / ghāya’ (‘Extremely high [quality]. King al-ʿAdil Abu Bakr Muhammad son of Ayyub. His successor to the covenant (i.e., heir) King al-Kamil Muhammad’ in Arabic); in the margin, traces of ‘lā ilāha illā Allāh Muḥammad rasūl Allāh arsalahū bi al-hudā wa dīn al-ḥaqq liyuẓhirahū ʿalā al-dīn kullih’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. 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). Album 801.1. Clipped, with areas of weakness and a die break on the reverse, otherwise, very fine.