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1 Dinar - Ahmad b. 'Ali al-Muhammadiya
| Issuer | Su'lukid dynasty |
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| Year | 917-924 |
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| Currency | Dinar (628/632-1598) |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays multiple horizontal lines of Kufic Arabic inscription within a plain inner circle, recording the name of the Abbasid caliph and the Su'lukid ruler Ahmad b. 'Ali. A circular marginal legend in Kufic script encircles the central area, separated by a plain raised ring. The reverse follows the standard Samanid-influenced dinar format with religious and dynastic titulature. The coin exhibits characteristic surface irregularities consistent with hand-hammered production of the early 4th century AH. |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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The Su'lukids were a minor Daylamite dynasty operating in the mountainous regions south of the Caspian, nominally subordinate to whatever power could enforce that subordination at any given moment. Ahmad b. 'Ali's coinage from this period acknowledges Abbasid suzerainty in the mint formula while the dynasty itself maintained effective independence — a routine fiction of legitimacy that characterized petty Iranian dynasties of the tenth century.
Al-Muhammadiya, the mint city, sat on major routes connecting the Caspian littoral to the Iranian plateau, which explains why gold coinage was struck there at all for so brief a dynasty.