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1 Dirham - Muhammad b. 'Umar

Issuer Banijurid dynasty
Year 881
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Value 1 Dirham (0.7)
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Obverse lettering لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له
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Reverse script Arabic
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The Banijurids were a minor Iranian dynasty governing parts of Tokharistan under Samanid suzerainty — effectively autonomous administrators who retained the right to strike coinage as a mark of delegated authority. Muhammad b. 'Umar is among the less-documented rulers in the line, and dirhams attributable specifically to his name are scarce in institutional collections. Album's reference 1433G reflects the detailed sub-classification work done to sort Banijurid emissions, many of which share dies or mint signatures with contemporaneous Samanid issues, complicating attribution without close examination of the marginal legends.

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