Fatimids. al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, AH 386-411 / AD 996-1021. Dinar (Gold, 24 mm, 4.06 g, 12 h), second series, Misr, AH 388 = AD 998. Within a central circle, ‘Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / ʿAlī walī Allāh’ (‘Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Ali is the friend of Allah’ in Arabic); in the inner margin, ‘lā ilāha illā Allāh waḥdahū lā sharīka lahū’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him’ in Arabic); in the outer margin, ‘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). Rev. Within a central circle, ‘al-Ḥākim bi amr Allāh / amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘al-Hakim bi amr Allah, Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); in the inner margin, ‘ʿabd Allāh wa waliyyuhū al-Manṣūr Abū ʿAlī al-Imām’ (‘The servant of Allah and His friend, al-Mansur Abu ʿAli, the Imam’ in Arabic); in the outer margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-dīnār bi Miṣr sana thamān wa thamānīn wa thalātha miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This dinar was struck in Misr in the year 388’ in Arabic). Album 709.2. Areas of weakness, light nicks and slightly wavy, otherwise, nearly very fine.