ISLAMIC, Persia (Pre-Seljuq). Buwayhids (Buyids). Baha' al-Dawla Abu Nasr Firuz Kharshah, AH 379-403 / AD 989-1012. Dinar (Gold, 26 mm, 4.50 g, 6 h), Madinat al-Salam, AH 397 = 1006/7. Citing the ruler’s titulature, continued on the reverse, ‘malik / lā ilāha illā Allāh / waḥdahū lā sharīka lahū / al-malik Bahāʾ al-Dawla / wa Ḍiyāʾ al-Milla / wa Ghiyāth al-Umma / al-mulūk’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him. King Bahaʾ al-Dawla wa Diyaʾ al-Milla wa Ghiyath al-Umma, King of Kings’ in Arabic); inner margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-dīnār bi Madīnat al-Salām sana sabʿ wa tisʿīn wa thalātha miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This dinar was struck in Madinat al-Salam in the year 397’ 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. Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Qadir billah (AH 381-422 / AD 991-1031), ‘li-llāh / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / ṣalla Allāh ʿalayh wa sallam / al-Qādir billāh / Shāhānshāh Qawām / al-Dīn Abū Naṣr / ibrīz’ (‘For Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. May Allah bless him and grant him peace. al-Qadir billah. King of Kings Qawam al-Din Abu Nasr. Pure [gold]’ in Arabic, with the Persian word ‘Shāhānshāh’); 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 1573. Well struck and fresh. Some doubling and slightly wavy, otherwise, extremely fine.