ISLAMIC, 'Abbasid Caliphate. Al-Mustadi, AH 566-575 / AD 1170-1180. Dinar (Gold, 25 mm, 3.63 g, 10 h), Madinat al-Salam, AH 568 = 1172/3. ‘al-imām / lā ilāha illā Allāh / waḥdahū lā sharīka lahū / al-Mustaḍī bi-amr Allāh / amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him. Imam al-Mustadi bi-amr Allāh, Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); inner margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-dīnār bi Madīnat al-Salām sana thamān wa sittīn wa khamsa miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This dinar was struck in Madinat al-Salam in the year 568’ 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 / ṣalla Allāh ʿalayh’ (‘For Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. May Allah bless him’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘Muḥammad rasūl Allāh arsalahū bi al-hudā wa dīn al-ḥaqq liyuẓhirahū ʿalā al-dīn kullih wa law kariha al-mushrikūn’ (‘Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. He sent him with guidance and the religion of truth, so that He may make it overcome all religions, even though the unbelievers may dislike it’ in Arabic). Album 267. Very rare. Struck slightly off center and with areas of weakness and some doubling, otherwise, good very fine.