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1 Dirham - Jalal al-Dawla Nasr II
| Issuer | Mirdasid dynasty |
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| Year | 1074-1076 |
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| Currency | Dinar (628/632-1598) |
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| Obverse description | Central field bearing multiple horizontal lines of Kufic Arabic inscription arranged within a plain inner border, typical of Mirdasid dirhams. The legends, struck on an irregular flan showing characteristic hammered production, occupy the full face of the coin without pictorial devices. The script is bold and angular, displaying the devotional and dynastic formulae standard to Islamic coinage of the period. The flan exhibits a chip at the upper right rim, and the surfaces show an olive-brown patina consistent with billon alloy. |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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The Mirdasids held Aleppo as a semi-autonomous Arab dynasty caught perpetually between Fatimid Egypt and the Byzantine and later Seljuk powers pressing from the north and east. Jalal al-Dawla Nasr II ruled during one of the dynasty's most precarious stretches — the early 1070s saw Seljuk pressure on northern Syria intensify sharply following the catastrophic Byzantine defeat at Manzikert in 1071, which effectively ended any counterbalancing Christian military presence in the region.
The billon composition reflects the monetary degradation common to Syrian minting in this period, as silver supplies tightened under sustained political instability. Nasr II would be the last Mirdasid to hold Aleppo before the dynasty's final collapse in 1080.