ISLAMIC, al-Maghreb (North Africa). Saʿdian Sharifs. Abu Faris ʿAbd Allah al-Wathiq, AH 1012-1017 / AD 1603-1608. Dinar (Gold, 27 mm, 4.71 g, 12 h), Murrakush (Marrakesh), AH 1012 = 1603/4. Within a square, ‘bism Allāh al-raḥmān al-raḥīm / ʿabd Allāh al-imām / Abū Fāris / al-Wāthiq billāh / amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The Servant of Allah, Imam Abu Faris al-Wathiq billah, the Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘innamā yurīd Allāh / liyudhhiba / ʿankum al-rijs / ahl al-bayt’ (‘Allah only wishes to remove uncleanness from you, O people of the House’ in Arabic; Qurʾān 33: 33). Rev. Introducing the ruler’s geneology within a square, ‘ibn al-imām abiʾl-ʿAbbās / al-Manṣūr amīr al-muʾminīn / ibn al-imāmayn al-khalīfatayn / amīray al-muʾminīn / al-sharīf al-nabavī’ (‘Son of Imam Abu al-ʿAbbas al-Mansur, the Commander of the Believers, son of two imams and caliphs and Commanders of the Believers, the Sharif, descended from the prophet’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘ḍuriba bi ḥaḍrat / Murrākush / ḥāṭahā Allāh / ʿām ithnā ʿashar wa alf’ (‘Struck in holy Murrakush, may Allah protect it, in the year 1012’ in Arabic). Album 568. Very rare. Areas of weakness, otherwise, good very fine.