ISLAMIC, 'Abbasid Caliphate. An-Nasir, AH 575-622 / AD 1180-1225. Heavy Dinar (Gold, 32 mm, 10.50 g, 7 h), Madinat al-Salam, AH 607 = 1210/1. ‘al-imām / lā ilāha illā Allāh / waḥdahū lā sharīka lahū / al-Nāṣir li-dīn Allāh / amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him. Imam al-Nasir li-din Allah, Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); inner margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-dīnār bi Madīnat al-Salām sana sabʿ wa sitta miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This dinar was struck in Madinat al-Salam in the year 607’ 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. ‘al-ḥamd lillāh / Muḥammad / rasūl Allāh / ṣalla Allāh ʿalayh’ (‘Praise be to 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 268. A large and heavy piece. Areas of weakness, otherwise, very fine.