ISLAMIC, Persia (Post-Seljuk). Khwarizm Shahs. 'Ala al-Din Muhammad II, AH 596-617 / AD 1200-1220. Dinar (Gold, 23 mm, 2.52 g, 10 h), Bukhara. Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Nasir li-din Allah (AH 575-622 / AD 1180-1225), ‘lā ilāha illā / Allāh Muḥammad / rasūl Allāh / al-Nāṣir li-dīn / Allāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. al-Nasir li-din Allah’ in Arabic); in the margin, traces of ‘huwa alladhi arsala rasūlahū bi al-hudā wa dīn al-ḥaqq liyuẓhirahū’ (‘He it is Who sent his messenger with guidance and the religion of truth, so that He may make it overcome [all religions]’ in Arabic; Qurʾān 48: 28). Rev. ‘Bukhārā / al-sulṭān al-aʿẓam / ʿAlā al-Dunyā wa al-Dīn / Abuʾl-Fatḥ Muḥammad / ibn al-sulṭān / Takish’ (‘Bukhara. The supreme sultan ʿAla al-Dunya wa al-Din Abuʾl-Fath Muhammad, son of Sultan Takish’ in Arabic); illegible date formula. Album 1712. Holed and with some areas of weakness, otherwise, about very fine.