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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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| Currency | Dinar (628/632-1598) |
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| Obverse lettering | لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له المطيع لله بسم الله ضرب هذا الدينار |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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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.