ISLAMIC, Persia (Pre-Seljuq). Ghaznavids. Yamin al-Dawla Abu'l-Qasim Mahmud, AH 388-421 / AD 998-1030. Dinar (Gold, 26 mm, 5.11 g, 11 h), Nishapur, AH 392 = AD 1001/2. Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Qadir billah (AH 381-422 / AD 991-1031), ‘ʿadl / lā ilāha illā Allāh / waḥdahū lā sharīka lahū / al-Qādir billāh / al-amīr al-sayyid’ (‘Justice. There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him. al-Qadir billah. The Amir and the Lord’ in Arabic); in the inner margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-dīnār bi Nayshābūr sana ithnā wa tisʿīn wa thalātha miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This dinar was struck in Nishapur in the year 392’ 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. ‘Allāh / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / Yamīn al-Dawla wa Amīn / al-Milla Abu’l-Qāsim / walī amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Yamin al-Dawla wa Amin al-Milla Abu’l-Qasim, the companion of the Commander of the Believers’ 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 1606. Somewhat rough, otherwise, about very fine.