Khalid ibn Ibrahim al-Dhuhli served as governor of Khurasan under the early Abbasids, a posting that carried minting authority in a region still consolidating after the revolutionary overthrow of the Umayyads in 750. Copper dirhams of this type are provincial issues struck outside the main silver-dominated monetary system, filling local transactional needs where full silver dirhams were impractical for small exchange.
The A#B209 reference places this among the rarer catalogued provincial coppers of the period — documentation for Khurasani copper from this transitional window is fragmentary at best.
Khalid ibn Ibrahim al-Dhuhli served as governor of Khurasan under the early Abbasids, a posting that carried minting authority in a region still consolidating after the revolutionary overthrow of the Umayyads in 750. Copper dirhams of this type are provincial issues struck outside the main silver-dominated monetary system, filling local transactional needs where full silver dirhams were impractical for small exchange.
The A#B209 reference places this among the rarer catalogued provincial coppers of the period — documentation for Khurasani copper from this transitional window is fragmentary at best.