1 Dinar - al-Muti' li'llah & 'Ali b. al-Hasan Adan

The Ma'nids were a minor dynasty operating in and around Aden during the mid-tenth century, functioning largely as regional governors under Abbasid nominal suzerainty while the caliphate itself had effectively lost real power to the Buyid amirs. The caliph named here, al-Muti' li'llah, came to the throne in 946 precisely as the Buyids consolidated control over Baghdad — his name on this dinar is political theater as much as legitimacy-claiming.

Aden's position at the mouth of the Red Sea made it a transit point for Indian Ocean trade, and gold coinage from this mint circulated well beyond the Arabian Peninsula into East African and South Asian markets.