ISLAMIC, Mongols. Ilkhanids. Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad Khudabanda Öljeytü, AH 703-716 / AD 1304-1316. 6 Dirhams (Silver, 30 mm, 12.85 g, 10 h), Type B, Nishapur, AH 710 = 1310/1. Shiʿa kalima in a central circle, ‘Allāh / lā ilāha illā / Muḥammad / rasūl Allāh / ʿAlī walī Allāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Ali is the friend of Allah’ in Arabic); to right and left, ‘bism ˗ al-karīm’ (‘In the name of [Allah,] the Generous’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘Allāhumma ṣalli ʿalā Muḥammad’ (‘O Allah! Bless Muhammad’ in Arabic), followed by the names of the twelve Shiʿa imams.
Rev. Within a quatrefoil, ‘ḍuriba fī / ayyām dawla al-mawlā / al-sulṭān al-aʿẓam mālik riqāb / al-umam Ūljāytū Sulṭān ghiyāth / al-dunyā wa al-dīn Khudābanda Muḥammad / khallada Allāh / Mulkahū’ (‘Struck in the days of the state of the Lord, the Supreme Sultan, Owner of the Necks of the Peoples, Uljaytu Sultan, Helper of the World and the Religion, Khudabanda Muhammad. May Allah perpetuate his kingdom’ in Arabic); in the margin, to right: ‘li-llāh al-amr min qabl wa min baʿd’ (‘To Allah belongs the command before and after’ in Arabic; Qurʾān 30: 4); to left: ‘Ulcitu Sultan’ (‘Sultan Uljaytu’ in Uighur); below: ‘ḍarb Nayshābūr ˗ sana ʿashr wa sabʿa miʾa’ (‘Struck in Nishapur in the year 710’ in Arabic). Album 2183. Diler Ul-365. Rare. A beautiful example of this large and impressive issue. Some horn silver and flan faults
, otherwise, good very fine.
From the collection of Dr. D. Löer, formed since the 1970s.