Watch List notes:

Zaydi Imams of the Banu Hamza (Rassid), al-Mahdi Ahmad AV Dinar. Local imitation(?). Muda' mint, dated AH 654 = AD 1248. Shi'ite kalima within a quatrefoil; mint and date formula around / Same as obverse. For type in silver cf. Album 1085 and Lowick 1983, no. 19 (mahdawi dirhams). 2.37g, 24mm, 11h.

Good Very Fine. Possibly unique and unpublished.

This coin appears to be a completely unknown dinar, identical in type to silver coinage of al-Mahdi Ahmad, with the same die used for both the obverse and the reverse.