Persia (Pre-Seljuq). Ziyarids. Mardawij, AH 315-323 / AD 927-935. Dinar (Gold, 26 mm, 3.14 g, 12 h), Mah al-Basra, AH 322 = AD 933/4. Citing the ʿAbbasid Caliph al-Qahir billah (AH 320-322 / AD 932-934) and the caliph’s heir Abu’l-Qasim, ‘lā ilāha illā Allāh / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / Abu’l-Qāsim ibn / amīr al-muʾminīn / Mardāwīj ibn Ziyār’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Abu’l-Qasim son of the Commander of the Believers. Mardawij son of Ziyar’ in Arabic); in the inner margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-dīnār bi Māh al-Baṣra sana ithnayn wa ʿishrīn wa thalātha miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This dinar was struck in Mah al-Basra in the year 322’ 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. ‘li-llāh / Muḥammad / rasūl / Allāh / al-Qāhir billāh’ (‘For Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. al-Qahir billah’ in Arabic); in the margin, 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 1530. Rare. Areas of weakness and with some doubling, otherwise, very fine.