1 Dinar - 'Abd al-Malik I Nishapur

The Samanid dinar is the benchmark Islamic gold coinage of the 10th century — the standard against which Abbasid and Buyid issues were measured in eastern trade networks stretching from the Volga to the Indian subcontinent. Nishapur, as the administrative capital of Khurasan, operated one of the dynasty's most active mints. 'Abd al-Malik I ruled only from 954 to 961, making his issues relatively short-series by Samanid standards.

A#1460 in Album's checklist places this squarely within the well-documented mainstream Samanid type, but individual die studies by Lowick identified meaningful variation in mint output across even brief reigns.