ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Zangids (al-Mawsil). Saif al-Din Ghazi II, AH 565-576 / AD 1170-1180. Heavy Dinar (Gold, 28 mm, 7.91 g, 6 h), al-Mawsil, AH 568 = 1172/3. Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Mustadi bi-amr Allah (AH 566-575 / AD 1170-1180), ‘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. al-Mustadi bi-amr Allah, Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); to right, above and left, ‘Ghāzī ibn – Mawdūd – ibn Zangi’ (‘Ghazi son of Mawdud son of Zangi’ in Arabic); in the inner margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-dīnār bi al-Mawṣil sana thamān wa sittīn wa khamsa miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This dinar was struck in al-Mawsil in the year 568’ in Arabic); in the 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. Within a dotted circle, ‘Muḥammad / rasūl Allāh / ṣalla Allāh ʿalayh’ (‘Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. May Allah bless him’ in Arabic); citing the Zangid ruler of Syria Nur al-Din Mahmud (AH 541-569 / AD 1146-1174) on the four sides, ‘al-malik – al-ʿādil – Maḥmūd – ibn Zankī’ (‘The just king, Mahmud son of Zangi’ 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 1859. Very rare. Slightly clipped and with light areas of weakness, otherwise, very fine.