1 Dirham - Mumahhid al-Dawla Sa'id Mayyafariqin

The Marwanids were a Kurdish dynasty controlling the Diyar Bakr region of upper Mesopotamia, nominally subordinate to the Abbasid caliphate while operating with considerable practical autonomy. Mumahhid al-Dawla Sa'id ruled Mayyafariqin — the ancient city now known as Silvan in southeastern Turkey — during a period when the dynasty navigated carefully between Buyid pressure from the south and Byzantine encroachment from the west. Coinage from this mint in this period is genuinely scarce; Mayyafariqin was not a major silver-producing center, and Marwanid dirhams appear infrequently in hoards relative to contemporaneous Buyid or Hamdanid issues.