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1 Dinar - Mas'ud Jarun
| Issuer | Qalhati, Emirate of |
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| Year | 1558 |
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| Value | 1 Dinar |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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| Mintage | 965 (1558) |
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The Emirate of Qalhati was a small coastal polity on the Omani littoral, its power derived almost entirely from control of the straits trade routes connecting the Persian Gulf to the Indian Ocean. By 1558, Portuguese commercial dominance in the region was well established following Afonso de Albuquerque's seizure of Hormuz in 1515, and local rulers like Mas'ud Jarun operated in an increasingly constrained political space — minting gold coinage was one of the few unambiguous assertions of independent authority still available to them.
Surviving examples are exceptionally rare. The reference A#C1943 places this squarely among the least-documented coinages of the Arabian Peninsula.