Ilkhanids. Uljaytu. Baghdad. AH 716 (AD 1316-1317). AV Presentation multiple dinar (42.35g, 7h). Maison Palombo 2019 (18) lot 86. Very rare. Lightly toned. Choice extremely fine. From a private collection

Allahumma ṣallà 'alà Muḥammad al-musṭafà wa-'Alī al-murtaḍà wa-l-Ḥasan al-raḍī wa-l-Ḥusayn al-shahīd... wa-Muḥammad wa-Ja'far al-ṣādiq wa-Mūsà al-kāẓim wa-'Alī al-hādī wa- al-'askarī wa-Muḥammad khallada... (outer circle) Ṣallà Allāh / lā ilāh illā Allāh / al-malik al-ḥaqq al-mubīn / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / al-ṣādiq al-wa'd al-amīn / 'Alī wālī Allāh / ṣallà Allāh 'alayhi (central polylobe)

Qur. Al-tawba, v. 112 (outer circle) ḍuriba / bi-madīnat al-salām / Baghdād / sanat sitt / 'ashr wa / sab'imi'a Dans le polylobe central: ḍuriba fī / dawlat al-mawlà al-sulṭān / al-a'ẓam mālik riqāb / al-imām ghayāth al-dunyā wa-l-dīn / Ūlujāytū sulṭān Muḥammad / khallada Allāh mulkahu (central circle)

The Ilkhanid dynasty was a Mongol dynasty ruling in Persia, up to the western edge of the Euphrates valley, in the 7th and 8th centuries AH/AD 13th-14th. The name of the dynasty indicates that they were dependent on the Great Khan (in Peking, China). Ghazan Khan (694-703 AH/AD 1295-1304) issued an edict ordering the standardization of the coinage in weight, fineness and type, and his standard double-dinar became the basis of Iran's monetary system for the 8th/14th century. Some changes in the design, in the legends, as well as in the standard weight of the Ilkhanid coins occasionally occurred. Uljaytu's first coins are similar to those of Ghazan Khan, but he replaced the Uighur legends with a combination of titles in Arabic according to the Islamic tradition: he converted from Sunni to Shi'a Islam, which explains the change of the legends