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1 Dinar - Abu'l 'Abbas
| Issuer | Emirate of Wakhsh |
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| Year | 1221 |
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| Value | 1 Dinar |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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| Mintage | 618 (1221) |
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Wakhsh was a small agrarian district in what is now southern Tajikistan, straddling the Wakhsh River. By 1221 it sat directly in the path of the Mongol advance into Transoxiana — Genghis Khan's forces had already devastated Samarkand and Bukhara the previous year. That a local emir was still striking gold dinars at this moment speaks less to stability than to the administrative inertia of Islamic mint practice, which continued almost reflexively even as political authority was collapsing around it. This piece may represent one of the final emissions from the region before Mongol absorption rendered local dynastic coinage obsolete.