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1 Dirham - 'Ali b. 'Umar
| Issuer | Annazid dynasty |
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| Year | 1026-1033 |
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| Value | 1 Dirham (0.7) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Reverse field displays a multi-line Arabic inscription in Kufic script arranged in horizontal registers across the central area, with the name and titles of the Annazid ruler 'Ali b. 'Umar prominently featured. A circular marginal legend runs along the periphery, separated from the central text by a beaded border. The layout adheres to the classical Islamic dirham format, with the field legends conveying both religious formulae and dynastic attribution. The strike is typical of hammered coinage, with uneven pressure resulting in partial weakness at the flan edges. |
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The Annazids were a Kurdish dynasty controlling the Shahrazur region and parts of the Zagros mountain corridor during the fractured middle Buyid period. Their coinage is poorly documented in major Western references, and A#D1590 remains one of the sparser entries in Album's corpus. 'Ali b. 'Umar's dirhams were struck during a window when Buyid authority in the east was collapsing under internal succession disputes, leaving regional dynasties briefly free to assert their own mint privileges.
Very few examples have appeared at auction in the past two decades.