ISLAMIC, Ayyubids. Damascus. al-Salih I Ismail, AH 635, 637-43 / AD 1237, 1239-1245. Dirham (Silver, 23 mm, 2.93 g, 12 h), Dimashq, AH 64x. Within a square, citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Mustansir billah (AH 623-640 / AD 1226-1242), ‘al-Imām / al-Mustanṣir / billāh Abū Jaʿfar / al-Manṣūr amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘Imam al-Mustansir billah Abu Jaʿfar al-Mansur, Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘lā ilāha illā / Allāh waḥdahū / lā sharīka lahū / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah’ in Arabic). Rev. Within a square, ‘al-malik al-Ṣāliḥ / ʿImād al-Dunyā wa al-Dīn / Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Bakr’ (‘King al-Salih ʿImad al-Dunya wa al-Din Ismaʿil son of Abu Bakr’ in Arabic); mint and date formula in the margin, ‘bism Allāh / ḍuriba bi Dimashq / sana … wa ar/baʿ wa sitta miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. Struck in Dimashq in the year 64x’ in Arabic). Album 848.1. Somewhat cleaned and with corrosion on the reverse, otherwise, about extremely fine.