Mamluks. al-'Adil Zayn al-Din Kitbugha, AH 694-696 / AD 1294-1296. Dinar (Gold, 23 mm, 9.35 g, 8 h), al-Qahira (Cairo), AH 69x. Within a circle, ‘ḍuriba bi al-Qāhira / lā ilāha illā Allāh / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / arsalahū bi al-hudā / wa dīn al-ḥaqq’ (‘Struck in al-Qahira. There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. He sent him with guidance and the religion of truth’ in Arabic); date formula in the margin, mostly off-flan, of which ‘wa tisʿīn wa sitta miʾa’ (‘69x’ in Arabic) is legible. Rev. Within a circle, ‘al-Manṣūrī / al-sulṭān al-malik / al-ʿādil Zayn al-Dunyā wa al-Dīn / Kitbughā qasīm amīr / al-muʾminīn’ (‘al-Mansuri, Sultan [and] King, al-ʿAdil Zayn al-Dunya wa al-Din Kitbugha, associate of the Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic). Album 904. Rare and unusually attractive. Light scratches, otherwise, extremely fine.