1 Dinar - Boz-Aba

The Atabegs of Fars were a dynasty of Seljuk governors who gradually converted nominal vassalage into effective independence during the mid-twelfth century. Boz-Aba, who ruled the Fars region from roughly 1139 to 1148, operated in the fractious political space left by the slow disintegration of Seljuk central authority — issuing gold coinage was itself an assertion of autonomous power, since the right to strike gold had long been jealously reserved by the suzerain.

Album's reference 1924 places this among the rarer Atabeg gold issues, with surviving examples thin on the market.