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1 Dinar - Isma'il bin Muhammad
| Issuer | Atabegs of Shabankara |
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| Year | 1282 |
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| Weight | 4.45 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by a bold multi-line Arabic inscription in florid Naskh script, giving the kalima or profession of faith and the ruler's name and titles, arranged within an inner circle. The surrounding margin contains a circular Arabic border legend. The flan is irregular and slightly uneven, characteristic of hammered medieval Islamic gold coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله |
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The Atabegs of Shabankara were a minor Luri dynasty ruling a mountainous region of Fars province in what is now southwestern Iran. By 1282, they were deep into their twilight — the Ilkhanate had absorbed effective control of the region, and local rulers like Isma'il bin Muhammad retained nominal authority largely at Mongol sufferance. Gold coinage from this dynasty is rare precisely because their political position was too marginal to sustain robust minting, and too dependent on Ilkhanid approval to operate independently.
Album's reference H1941 places this squarely within the fractured post-Mongol invasion coinage of southern Persia.