Arabia. Zuray'ids. Muhammad ibn Saba', AH 534-550 / AD 1140-1155. Dinar (Gold, 23 mm, 2.35 g, 5 h), ʿAdan, AH 541 = AD 1146/7. The ruler’s name and Shiʿa kalima within three concentric circles, ‘Muḥammad / lā ilāha illā Allāh / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / ʿAlī walī Allāh / al-Mutawwij’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Ali is the friend of Allah. Muhammad al-Mutawwij’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba bi ʿAdan sana iḥdā wa arbaʿīn al-Muẓaffar fī al-Dīn dāʿī amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘In the name of Allah. Struck in ʿAdan in the year [5]41. al-Muzaffar fi al-Din, Missionary of the Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic). Rev. Citing the long-deceased Sulayhid ruler al-Mukarram Ahmad (AH 473-484 / AD 1081-1091), ‘dāʿī amīr / al-malik al-sayyid / al-Mukarram ʿaẓīm / al-ʿarab sulṭān / amīr al-muʾminīn / al-muʾminīn’ (‘The king, the lord, al-Mukarram, the chief of the Arabs, sultan under the Commander of the Believers, [and] Missionary of 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 1080. Rare. Struck from somewhat worn dies, otherwise, nearly extremely fine.