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1 Dinar - al-Ustundar Madinat Amul
| Issuer | Ustundars of Ruyan |
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| Year | 948 |
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| Currency | Dinar (628/632-1598) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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The Ustundars of Ruyan were a minor Ziyarid client dynasty operating in the Caspian highlands of Tabaristan — a region that maintained its own political micro-identities long after the surrounding territories fell under Abbasid and then Buyid influence. Coinage from these rulers is exceptionally rare precisely because their authority was geographically constrained to the forested mountain zones between the Alborz and the Caspian shore, limiting both mint output and commercial reach.
Amul, the mint city named on this piece, served as the principal urban center of Tabaristan throughout the medieval Islamic period. The A#T1524 reference places this among a handful of attributed types for the dynasty.