ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Lu'lu'ids. Badr al-Din Lu'lu, AH 631-657 / AD 1234-1259. Dinar (Gold, 28 mm, 4.59 g, 3 h), al-Mawsil, AH 647 = AD 1249/50. Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Mustaʿsim billah (AH 640-656 / AD 1242-1258), ‘al-imām / lā ilāha illā Allāh / waḥdahū lā sharīka lahū / al-Mustaʿṣim billāh / amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him. al-Mustaʿsim billah, Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); in the inner margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-dīnār bi al-Mawṣil sana sabʿ wa arbaʿīn wa sitta miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This dinar was struck in al-Mawsil in the year 647’ 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 dotted circle, ‘Luʾluʾ / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / ṣalla Allāh ʿalayh / Badr al-Dunyā / wa al-Dīn Atābak’ (‘Luʾluʾ. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. May Allah bless him. Badr al-Dunya wa al-Din Atabak’ in Arabic)’; to right and left, citing the Ayyubid overlord al-Salih Ayyub, ‘al-malik al-Ṣāliḥ – Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb’ (‘King al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub’ 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 1871.7. Rare. Struck slightly off-centered and with minor flan faults, otherwise, good very fine.