ISLAMIC, Persia (Pre-Seljuq). Ghaznavids. Zahir al-Dawla Abu'l-Muzaffar Ibrahim, AH 451-492 / AD 1059-1099. Dinar (Gold, 23 mm, 4.30 g, 10 h), [Ghazna], date effaced. Within a dotted circle, ‘ʿadl / lā ilāha illā Allāh / waḥdahū lā sharīka lahū / Ibrāhīm ibn Masʿūd’ (‘Justice. There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him. Ibrahim son of Masʿud’ in Arabic); illegible mint and date formula in the margin. Rev. Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Qaʾim bi-amr Allah (AH 422-467/AD 1031-1075), ‘[li-llāh] / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / al-Qāʾim bi-amr Allāh / Ẓahīr al-Dawla / Ibrāhīm’ (‘For Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. al-Qaʾim bi-amr Allah. Zahir al-Dawla Ibrahim’ in Arabic); in the margin, very weak traces of ‘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 1637.1. Areas of weakness, otherwise, good fine.