ISLAMIC, Persia (Pre-Seljuq). Qarakhanids (Local rulers). Fals (Bronze, 26 mm, 3.27 g), Kharashkath, under Ilyas Hajjaj, AH 405 = 1014. ‘lā ilāha illā / Allāh waḥdahū / lā sharīka lahū’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him’ in Arabic); inner margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-fals bi Kharashkath sana khams wa arbaʿa miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This fals was struck in Kharashkath in the year 405’ in Arabic); outer margin, ‘li-llāh al-amr min qabl wa min baʿd wa yawmaʾidhin yafraḥu al-muʾminūn bi naṣr Allāh’ (‘To Allah belongs the command before and after, and on that day the believers will rejoice with the help of Allah’ in Arabic; Qurʾān 30: 4-5). Rev. ‘li-llāh / Muḥammad / rasūl Allāh / Ilīyās Ḥajjāj’ (‘To Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Ilyas Hajjaj’ in Arabic); citing Ahmad ibn Ali (AH 384-407 / AD 994-1016) in the margin, ‘mimmā amara bihī al-amīr al-ajall Quṭb al-Dawla wa Naṣr al-Milla Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī’ (‘From that ordered by the most glorious amir Qutb al-Dawla wa Nasr al-Milla Ahmad, son of ʿAli’ in Arabic). Album 3437. Extremely rare. Nearly very fine.