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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 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by multiple horizontal lines of Arabic Kufic inscription arranged within an inner linear border, typical of Eastern Islamic dirham design of the early 5th century AH. The legends reference religious formulae and the issuing authority. A marginal inscription runs along the outer circle within a second linear border, framing the entire field. The surfaces display the characteristic flat, broad flan associated with hammered silver dirhams of the Transoxianan tradition. Strike is slightly off-center with the irregular flan edge partially cutting into the outer marginal legend. |
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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.