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1 Dirham - Muzaffar Kiya Citing Ahmad b. 'Ali and Nasr b. 'Ali
| Issuer | Qarakhanid Dynasty |
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| Year | 1005 |
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| Value | 1 Dirham (0.7) |
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| Obverse lettering | لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له |
| Reverse description | Central field bearing multiple lines of Kufic Arabic script arranged in the Abbasid tradition, citing the names of the ruling authorities: Muzaffar Kiya, Ahmad b. 'Ali, and Nasr b. 'Ali, along with standard religious phrases. The inscription is framed by a single inner circle, with a continuous circular marginal legend in Arabic running along the periphery, itself bounded by an outer dotted border. The overall style and layout closely follow the Samanid and early Qarakhanid dirham tradition. |
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The Qarakhanid practice of citing multiple names on a single dirham reflects the confederation's fractured authority structure — khans ruling as co-sovereigns would acknowledge both a senior and junior ruler on coinage, sometimes alongside an Abbasid caliph, as a calculated declaration of legitimacy rather than subservience. By 1005, the dynasty had recently consolidated control over Transoxiana following the collapse of Samanid power, and the mint output from this transitional period documents the precise hierarchy of competing claimants in ways that no written chronicle quite matches.