ISLAMIC, Persia (Post-Seljuk). Ghurids (Ghur & Ghazna). Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad, AH 558-599 / AD 1163-1203. Dinar (Gold, 28 mm, 5.66 g), Harat (Herat), AH 59[.]. Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Nasir li-din Allah (AH 575-622 / AD 1180-1225) as al-Nasir billah. ‘Harāt / lā ilāha illā Allāh / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / al-Nāṣir billāh amīr / al-muʾminīn’ (‘Harat. There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. al-Nasir billah, the Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘huwa alladhi arsala rasūlahū bi al-hudā wa dīn al-ḥaqq [liyuẓhirahū ʿalā al-dīn kullih]’ (‘He it is Who sent his messenger with guidance and the religion of truth, so that He may make it overcome all religions’ in Arabic; Qurʾān 48: 28). Rev. ‘Harāt’ (in Arabic) at the top; citing the ruler as ‘al-sulṭān al-muʿaẓẓam / Ghiyāth al-Dunyā wa al-Dīn / Abuʾl-Fath Muḥammad / ibn Sām’ (in Arabic); in the margin, part of Qurʾān 48: 28 (as the obverse margin) followed by the date. Album 1754. Zeno-197650 (this coin). Very rare. Struck slightly off center and with areas of weakness, otherwise, nearly very fine.