1 Dirham - Mu'tamid al-Dawla

The Uqaylids were an Arab tribal dynasty — Banu Uqayl of the Aqil branch of Amir ibn Sa'sa'a — who seized Mosul from the Hamdanids in 990 and held it through a sustained balancing act between the Buyids to the south and the encroaching forces that would eventually become the Seljuk juggernaut. Mu'tamid al-Dawla Qirwash ibn al-Muqallad, who ruled Mosul from roughly 996 to 1050, briefly acknowledged the Fatimid caliph in his coin legends around 1010 — a calculated political maneuver — before reverting to Abbasid suzerainty under pressure.

This dirham dates to a period when that reversion had stabilized, and the dynasty's silver output from Mosul remains sparsely documented in major collections.