ISLAMIC, Fatimids. al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah, AH 341-365 / AD 953-975. 1/4 Dirham (Silver, 15 mm, 0.64 g), Bull’s-eye type, without mint and date. Concentric circles of inscription around a central pellet; inner inscription, ‘lā ilāha illā Allāh Muḥammad rasūl Allāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah’ in Arabic); second inscription, ‘wa ʿAlī afḍal al-waṣiyyīn wa wazīr khayr al-mursalīn’ (‘And Ali is the most excellent of the executors and vizier of the best of messengers’ in Arabic); weak traces of a third circle of inscription. Rev. Two concentric circles of inscription around a central pellet; inner inscription, ‘al-Muʿizz li-Dīn Allāh amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘al-Muʿizz li-Din Allah, Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); second inscription, ‘daʿā al-imām Maʿadd li-tawḥīd al-ilāh al-ṣamad’ (‘Imam Maʿadd summons [everyone] to confirm the oneness of God, the Absolute’ in Arabic). Album 700. Rare. Some light deposits, otherwise, very fine.