Fatimids. al-'Aziz billah, AH 365-386 / AD 975-996. Dinar (Gold, 22 mm, 4.00 g, 12 h), type A1, with Ismāʿīlī shahāda., Misr, AH 368 = AD 978/9. Central design within concentric circles: lā ilāha illā Allāh Muḥammad rasūl Allāh ʿAlī khayr ṣafwat Allāh (‘There is no deity but God; Muḥammad is the Messenger of God; ʿAlī is the best of the chosen of God’ in Arabic). Outer inscription (Qurʾān 9:33): Muḥammad rasūl Allāh arsalahu bi-l-hudā wa-dīn al-ḥaqq li-yuẓhirahu ʿalā al-dīn kullihi wa-law kariha al-mushrikūn (‘Muḥammad 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); Pellet at center. Rev. Central design within concentric circles: ʿabd Allāh wa walīyuhu Nizār al-imām al-ʿAzīz bi-llāh amīr al-muʾminīn (‘The servant of God and His friend, Nizār, the Imam al-ʿAzīz bi-llāh, Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic). Outer inscription: bi-sm Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-dīnār bi-Miṣr sana thamān wa sittīn wa thalātha miʾa (‘In the name of God, this dinar was struck in Misr in the year three hundred and sixty-eight’ in Arabic); Pellet at center. Album 703. Nicol 702. Slightly clipped, somewhat wavy and a small graffito on the obverse, otherwise, about extremely fine.