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1 Dirham - Fakhr al-Dawla Abu al-Hasan 'Ali al-Dinawa
| Issuer | Buyid Dynasty (Al-Dawla) |
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| Year | 985 |
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| Reference(s) | A#1563 |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Fakhr al-Dawla's control over the Jibal region was never entirely secure — he spent much of his reign managing the competing ambitions of his brothers, particularly Mu'ayyid al-Dawla in Isfahan, whose death in 983 had only recently consolidated his position. This dirham, struck at al-Dinavar, comes from that brief window of relative dominance before his own death in 987 left the dynasty's western territories to a regency government under his widow, Sayyida Shirin.
Billon issues of this period reflect the broader debasement plaguing Buyid coinage as silver supplies from the Samanid east grew increasingly disrupted.