1 Dirham - Al-Harith ibn Mansur Citing Ghaznavid overlord Mas'ud I

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.