ISLAMIC, al-Maghreb (North Africa). Saʿdian Sharifs. Abuʾl-ʿAbbas Ahmad, AH 986-1012 / AD 1578-1603. Dinar (Gold, 27 mm, 4.40 g), second standard, al-Kitawa, AH 1011 = 1602/3. Citing his title al-Mansur billah within a square, ‘bism Allāh al-raḥmān al-raḥīm / ʿabd Allāh al-imām / Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad / al-Manṣūr billāh / amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The Servant of Allah, Imam Abu al-ʿAbbas Ahmad al-Mansur billah, the Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘innamā yurīd Allāh / liyudhhiba / ʿankum al-rijs / ahl al-bayt’ (‘Allah only wishes to remove uncleanness from you, O people of the House’ in Arabic; Qurʾān 33: 33). Rev. Introducing the ruler’s geneology within a square, ‘ibn al-imām Abī ʿAbd / Allāh Muḥammad al-shaykh / al-Mahdī ibn al-imām / al-Qāʾim bi amr Allāh / al-sharīf al-ḥasanī’ (‘Son of Imam Abu ʿAbd Allah Muhammad al-shaykh al-Mahdi, son of Imam al-Qaʾim bi amr Allah, the Sharif, descended from Hasan’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘ḍuriba bi ḥaḍrat / al-Kitāwā / ḥāṭahā Allāh / ʿām iḥdā ʿashar wa alf’ (‘Struck in holy al-Kitawa, may Allah protect it, in the year 1011’ in Arabic). Album 565.2. Rare. Double struck from worn dies, otherwise, very fine.