ISLAMIC, Mongols. Ilkhanids. Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad Khudabanda Öljeytü, AH 703-716 / AD 1304-1316. 2 Dirhams (Silver, 26 mm, 4.27 g), Type B, Baghdad, AH 711 = 1311/2. Shiʿa kalima and the mint name within a circle, ‘lā ilāh-a illā Allāh / / 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); at the sides, ‘bism - Allāh - 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 Khudā-Banda Muḥammad khallada / Allāh Mulkahū / Baghdād’ (‘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, Khuda-Banda Muhammad. May Allah perpetuate his kingdom. Baghdad’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘li-llāh al-amr min qabl wa min baʿd’ (‘To Allah belongs the command before and after’ in Arabic; Qurʾān 30: 4); traces of Uljaytu’s name in the Uighur script; ‘ḍarb Baghdād sana - iḥdā ʿashar wa sabʿa miʾa’ (‘Struck in Baghdad in the year 711’ in Arabic). Album 2184. Diler Ul-365. Struck slightly off center and with some doubling, otherwise, good very fine.