Arabia. Sulayhids. 'Ali ibn Muhammad, AH 439-473 / AD 1047-1081. Dinar (Gold, 21 mm, 2.44 g, 3 h), Zabid, AH 451 = AD 1059/60 (frozen year). Within two concentric circles, in three lines: lā ilāha illā Allāh / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / ʿAlī walī Allāh (‘There is no deity but God; Muḥammad is the Messenger of God; ʿAlī is the friend of God’ in Arabic). Margin: bi-sm Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-dīnār bi-Zabīd sana iḥdā wa-khamsīn wa-arbaʿ miʾa (‘In the name of God, this dinar was struck in Zabīd in the year 451’ in Arabic). Rev. Within two concentric circles, in three lines: amara bihī al-amīr / sayf al-imām / ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad (‘Ordered by the amīr, the Sword of the Imām, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad’ in Arabic). Margin: al-imām Maʿadd Abū Tamīm al-Mustanṣir bi-llāh amīr al-muʾminīn (‘The Imām Maʿadd Abū Tamīm al-Mustanṣir bi-llāh, Commander of the Faithful’ in Arabic). Album 1075.2. Rare. Small areas of weakness, some granularity and tiny deposits, otherwise, very fine.