ISLAMIC, Arabia. Ziyadids. Husayn ibn Salama, AH 400-410 / AD 1009-1019. 1/6 Dirham (Silver, 16 mm, 0.47 g, 8 h), Zabid, undated. Within two concentric centers, ‘lā ilāha illā / Allāh waḥdahū / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / Ḥusayn’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Husayn’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-dirham bi Zabīd’ (‘In the name of Allah. This dirham was struck in Zabid’ in blundered Arabic). Rev. Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Qadir billah (AH 381-422 / AD 991-1031), ‘al-Qādir / billāh amīr / al-muʾminīn’ (‘al-Qadir billah, Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘jāʾa al-haqq wa zahaqa al-bāṭil inn al-bāṭila kāna zahūqā’ (‘Truth has come and falsehood has vanished. Surely falsehood is bound to vanish’ in blundered Arabic; Qurʾān 17: 81). Album -. Zeno-231962. Some deposits, otherwise, very fine.