1 Dinar - 'Imran b. Muhammad Adan

The Zurayids controlled Aden and its surrounding coast as nominal vassals — first of the Sulayhids, then increasingly under pressure from the Hamdanids of Sanaa. By the 1160s that vassalage had become largely theoretical, and coins struck under 'Imran b. Muhammad reflect a dynasty operating with considerable practical autonomy despite the political fiction of submission. Aden's position as the dominant transit port for Indian Ocean trade meant the mint had no shortage of gold, sourced largely from commerce rather than local extraction.

Album's attribution A#1080I places this among the rarer Zurayid issues, a dynasty whose numismatic output remains poorly documented in Western scholarship.