Arabia. Zuray'ids. In name of Sulayhid al-Mukarram Ahmad. Dinar (Gold, 22 mm, 2.35 g, 8 h), ʿAdan, AH 525 = AD 1130/1. Within three concentric circles, Shiʿa kalima, ‘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, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-dīnār bi ʿAdan sana khams wa ʿishrīn wa khamsa miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This dinar was struck in ʿAdan in the year 525’ in Arabic). Rev. Citing the deceased Sulayhid ruler al-Mukarram Ahmad (AH 473-484 / AD 1081-1091) within two concentric circles, ‘al-malik al-sayyid / al-Mukarram ʿaẓīm / al-ʿarab sulṭān / amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘The king, the lord, al-Mukarram, the chief of the Arabs, sultan under the Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); citing the Fatimid caliph al-ʾAmir (AH 495-524 / AD 1101-1130) in the margin, ‘al-imām al-Manṣūr Abū ʿAlī al-ʾĀmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh amīr al-muʾminīn ṣalawāt Allāh [ʿalayh]’ (‘Imam al-Mansur Abu ʿAli al-ʾAmir bi-Ahkam Allah [= He who commands Allah’s decrees], Commander of the Believers. May the blessings of Allah be upon him’ in Arabic). Album 1079. Rare. Some flan faults, minor doubling and small deposits, otherwise, good very fine.