ISLAMIC, Fatimids. al-Zahir li-I'zaz Din Allah, AH 411-427 / AD 1021-1036. 1/4 Dinar (Gold, 14 mm, 0.97 g, 5 h), posthumous issue, Siqilliyya, AH 429 = AD 1037/8. Within a circle, ‘lā ilāha illā Allāh / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / ʿAlī walī Allāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Ali is the friend of Allah’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘Muḥammad rasūl Allāh arsalahū bi al-hudā wa dīn al-ḥaqq liyuẓhirahū ʿalā al-dīn kullih’ (‘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’ in Arabic). Rev. Within a circle, ‘al-Ẓāhir / li-Iʿzāz Dīn Allāh / amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘al-Zahir li-Iʿzaz Din Allah, Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-dīnār bi Siqilliya sana tisʿ wa ʿishrīn wa arbaʿa miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This dinar was struck in Siqilliyya in the year 429’ in Arabic). Album 715. A very rare date. Slightly clipped and with scrapes , otherwise, very fine.