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1 Dinar - Bakran ibn Khurshid al-Karaj?
| Issuer | Ziyarids of Tabaristan |
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| Year | 935 |
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| Value | 1 Dinar |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by a multi-line Kufic Arabic inscription arranged in horizontal registers within a plain inner border. The primary legend contains the Islamic profession of faith and the name of the Abbasid caliph al-Muti' lillah. A circular marginal legend in Kufic script runs along the outer border, reading the Basmala and mint-and-date formula. The die-work is characteristic of early medieval Islamic hammered gold coinage, with no figural imagery. The flan is slightly irregular and shows typical hammer-struck surface texture. |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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The Ziyarids emerged from the mountainous Caspian region of Tabaristan in the early tenth century, one of several Iranian dynasties that filled the power vacuum left by Abbasid decline. Bakran ibn Khurshid al-Karajī is among the more obscure figures in the dynasty's early history, and gold issues attributable to him are rare enough that the album reference itself carries a query mark on the identification.
Tabaristan's Caspian geography made it one of the last holdouts of pre-Islamic Iranian numismatic traditions, and the transition to fully Arabicized gold coinage under these local rulers was uneven across successive governors.