ISLAMIC, Mongols. Ilkhanids. Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad Khudabanda Öljeytü, AH 703-716 / AD 1304-1316. 2 Dirhams (Silver, 25 mm, 4.31 g, 11 h), Type B, Tabriz, AH 710 = 1310/1. Shiʿa kalima in a central circle, ‘lā ilāha 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); to right, above, and left, ‘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 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: ‘Ulcitu Sultan’ (‘Sultan Uljaytu’ in Uighur); to left: ‘li-llāh al-amr min qabl wa min baʿd’ (‘To Allah belongs the command before and after’ in Arabic; Qurʾān 30: 4); below: ‘ḍarb madīnat Tabrī – sana ʿashr wa sabʿa miʾa’ (‘Struck in the city of Tabriz in the year 710’ in Arabic). Album 2184. Diler Ul-365. Struck slightly off center, otherwise, good very fine.