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1 Dinar - Samsam al-Dawla Suq al-Ahwaz
| Issuer | Buyid Dynasty (Al Buwayh) |
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| Year | 978 |
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| Weight | 4.39 g |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mint | Suq al-Ahwaz |
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Samsam al-Dawla ruled as the Buyid amir of Khuzestan and Fars following the fragmentation of Buyid territories after the death of Adud al-Dawla in 983 — though this piece predates that division, struck when Buyid power was still at its administrative peak. Suq al-Ahwaz, the mint city, was the commercial capital of Khuzestan province and one of the most active trade entrepôts connecting the Persian Gulf networks to the Iraqi interior.
The Buyids operated as de facto rulers while maintaining Abbasid caliphs as figureheads in Baghdad, a political arrangement that made the choice of names on coinage a matter of careful negotiation rather than simple protocol.