'Abbasid Caliphate. Al-Muqtadir, second reign, AH 296-317 / AD 908-929. Dirham (Silver, 25 mm, 2.94 g, 6 h), citing the heir apparent Abū al-ʿAbbās, Kufa, AH 317 = AD 929/30. Central field, in five lines: lā ilāha illā / Allāh waḥdahū / lā sharīka lahū / Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn / amīr al-muʾminīn (‘There is no deity but God alone; He has no associate / Abū al-ʿAbbās son of the Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic). Inner margin: bi-sm Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-dirham bi-l-Kūfa sanat sabʿ ʿashra wa-thalāth-miʾa (‘In the name of God, this dirham was struck in al-Kūfa in the year three hundred and seventeen’ in Arabic). Outer margin (Qurʾān 30:4-5): li-llāh al-amr min qabl wa-min baʿd wa-yawmaʾidhin yafraḥ al-muʾminūn bi-naṣr Allāh (‘To God belongs the command before and after, and on that day the believers will rejoice in the help of God’ in Arabic). Rev. Central field, in five lines: li-llāh / Muḥammad / rasūl / Allāh / al-Muqtadir bi-llāh (‘For God / Muḥammad / Messenger / of God / al-Muqtadir bi-llāh’ in Arabic). Margin (Qurʾān 9:33): Muḥammad rasūl Allāh arsalahu bi-l-hudā wa-dīn al-ḥaqq li-yuẓhirahu ʿalā al-dīn kullihi wa-law kariha al-mushrikūn (‘Muḥammad is the Messenger of God, whom He sent with guidance and the religion of truth to make it prevail over all religion, even though the polytheists may dislike it’ in Arabic). Album 245.2. Beautifully toned. Some areas of weakness and tiny scratches, otherwise, nearly extremely fine.