Fatimids. al-Mustansir billah, AH 427-487 / AD 1036-1094. Dinar (Gold, 23 mm, 4.06 g), first standard dinar with Shiʿite profession of faith, Misr, AH 438 = AD 1046/7. Central field, in five lines, within two concentric circles: ʿAlī / lā ilāha illā Allāh / waḥdahu lā sharīka lahu / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / walī Allāh (‘ʿAli / There is no god but God / He alone, He has no associate / Muhammad is the Messenger of God / the friend of God’ in Arabic). Margin: Muḥammad rasūl Allāh arsalahu bi-l-hudā wa-dīn al-ḥaqq li-yuẓhirahu ʿalā al-dīn kullihi wa-law kariha al-mushrikūn (‘Muhammad is the Messenger of God, whom He sent with guidance and the religion of truth, to make it prevail over all religion, even though the polytheists may dislike it’ in Arabic). Rev. Central field, in four lines, within two concentric circles: Maʿadd / al-imām Abū / Tamīm al-Mustanṣir / bi-llāh amīr al-muʾminīn (‘Maʿadd, the Imam Abū Tamīm al-Mustanṣir bi-llāh, Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic). Margin: bism Allāh al-raḥmān al-raḥīm ḍuriba hādhā al-dīnār bi-Miṣr sana thamān wa-thalāthīn wa-arbaʿ-miʾa (‘In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate, this dinar was struck in Miṣr in the year four hundred and thirty-eight’ in Arabic). Album 719.1. Nicol 2113. Well centered with bold legends. Some doubling on the obverse and minor marks, otherwise, extremely fine.