Fatimids. al-Zahir li-I'zaz Din Allah, AH 411-427 / AD 1021-1036. Dinar (Gold, 21 mm, 4.21 g, 12 h), Type H1a, Misr, AH 420 = AD 1029/30. Four concentric circles of inscription around the word: ʿadl (‘Justice’ in Arabic). Inner inscription: Muḥammad rasūl Allāh ʿAlī walī Allāh (‘Muḥammad is the Messenger of God; ʿAlī is the friend of God’ in Arabic). Second inscription: lā ilāha illā Allāh waḥdahū lā sharīka lahū (‘There is no deity but God alone; He has no associate’ 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). Rev. Four concentric circles of inscription around the word: ʿadl (‘Justice’ in Arabic). Inner inscription: al-Ẓāhir li-Iʿzāz Dīn Allāh amīr al-muʾminīn (‘al-Ẓāhir li-Iʿzāz Dīn Allāh, Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic). Second inscription: ʿabd Allāh wa waliyyuhū ʿAlī Abū al-Ḥasan al-imām (‘The servant of God and His friend, ʿAlī Abū al-Ḥasan, the Imam’ in Arabic). Outer inscription: bi-sm Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-dīnār bi-Miṣr sana ʿishrīn wa arbaʿ-miʾa (‘In the name of God, this dinar was struck in Misr in the year four hundred and twenty’ in Arabic). Album 714.2. Nicol 1524. Very rare. Struck on a wavy flan and tiny marks, otherwise, nearly extremely fine.