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1 Dirham - Al-Harith ibn Mansur Citing Ghaznavid overlord Mas'ud I
| Issuer | Khuttal, Emirate of |
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| Year | 1031-1041 |
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| Currency | Dinar (628/632-1598) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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Khuttal occupied a strategically awkward position in the upper Oxus region, nominally subject to whichever power could project force into its mountain valleys. When Mas'ud I consolidated Ghaznavid control across Khurasan and the eastern territories after his father Mahmud's death in 1030, local amirs like Al-Harith ibn Mansur had little choice but to acknowledge him on the coinage — the khuṭba and mint inscription being the two public acts that confirmed political submission. That this issue cites Mas'ud rather than a Samanid or Qarakhanid claimant places it squarely within the decade of peak Ghaznavid eastern reach, before Dandanaqan in 1040 unraveled it.