al-Maghreb (North Africa). Almoravids (al-Murabitun). Abu Bakr ibn 'Umar, AH 448-480 / AD 1056-1087. Dinar (Gold, 26 mm, 3.80 g, 3 h), Sijilmasa, AH 480(?) = AD 1087/8. Within a central circle, ‘lā ilāha illā Allāh / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / al-amīr Abū Bakr / ibn ʿUmar’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Amir Abu Bakr son of ʿUmar’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘wa man yabtagh ghayr al-ʾIslām dīnan falan yuqbala minhu wa huwa fī al-ʾākhirati min al-khāsirīn’ (‘And whoever desires a religion other than Islam, it will not be accepted from him, and in the hereafter he will be among the losers’ in Arabic; Qurʾān 3: 85). Rev. Within a central circle, ‘al-imām / ʿabd / Allāh / amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘The Imam, the Servant of Allah, the Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘[bism Allāh ḍuriba] hādhā al-dīnār bi Sijilmāsa sana (?) thamānīn wa arbaʿa miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This dinar was struck in Sijilmasa in the year 480(?)’ in Arabic). Album 461.2. Rare. Some deposits and minor edge clips, otherwise, good extremely fine.