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1 Dinar - Tughril b. Sunqur
| Issuer | Atabegs of Fars |
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| Year | 1175-1203 |
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| Currency | Dinar (628/632-1598) |
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| Obverse description | Hammered gold dinar of irregular flan exhibiting the characteristic style of Atabeg coinage. The central field bears the Islamic profession of faith (Shahada) inscribed in angular Kufic-influenced Arabic script arranged in multiple horizontal lines. The legend reads 'La ilaha illa Allah, wahdahu la sharika lah' (There is no god but God, alone without partner). A marginal inscription running along the outer border contains the Quranic verse (Quran 9:33) attesting to the prophetic mission of Muhammad, rendered in a flowing Arabic script. The flan is slightly irregular and shows typical characteristics of hand-struck medieval Islamic coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له [Margin: محمد رسول الله أرسله بالهدى ودين الحق ليظهره على الدين كله ولو كره المشركون] |
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The Atabegs of Fars were a Saljuq successor dynasty governing the province of Fars from Shiraz, nominally subordinate to the Saljuq sultans but effectively autonomous through much of their rule. Tughril b. Sunqur reigned during a period when Saljuq central authority had collapsed almost entirely, and the atabeg dynasties across Iran and Iraq operated as de facto independent rulers while maintaining the fiction of Saljuq suzerainty on their coinage.
The Album reference A#1927G places this among the rarer emissions of the Fars atabegs, a dynasty that produced relatively few gold issues compared to their silver output from the Shiraz mint.