ISLAMIC, Persia (Pre-Seljuq). Ghaznavids. Yamin al-Dawla Abu'l-Qasim Mahmud, AH 388-421 / AD 998-1030. Dinar (Gold, 24 mm, 4.25 g, 11 h), Yamini type, Nishapur, AH 411 = AD 1020/1. ‘ʿadl / lā ilāha illā / Allāh waḥdahū / lā sharīka lahū / yamīnī’ (‘Justice. There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him. Yamini’ in Arabic); in the inner margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-dīnār bi Nayshābūr sana aḥada ʿashar wa arbaʿa miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This dinar was struck in Nishapur in the year 411’ in Arabic); in the outer margin, ‘li-llāh al-amr min qabl wa min baʿd wa yawmaʾidhin yafraḥu al-muʾminūn bi naṣr Allāh’ (‘To Allah belongs the command before and after, and on that day the believers will rejoice with the help of Allah’ in Arabic; Qurʾān 30: 4-5). Rev. Within a circle, citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Qadir billah (AH 381-422 / AD 991-1031), ‘Muḥammad / rasūl Allāh / al-Qādir billāh / Yamīn al-Dawla / wa Amīn al-Milla / Abu’l-Qāsim’ (‘Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. al-Qadir billah. Yamin al-Dawla wa Amin al-Milla Abu’l-Qasim’ 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). Album 1606. Areas of weakness, otherwise, about very fine.