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1 Dirham - Muzahir al-Dawla Rafi' b. al-Husayn
| Issuer | Uqaylids of Takrit |
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| Year | 1019 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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The Uqaylids were an Arab tribal dynasty — nominally Hamdanid clients, then nominally Buyid clients — whose actual authority over the Jazira and upper Tigris region operated well outside whatever suzerainty they formally acknowledged. Muzahir al-Dawla Rafi' b. al-Husayn held Takrit, the fortified city on the Tigris that would later become notorious as Saladin's birthplace, during a period when the Buyid confederation was fracturing badly enough that local strongmen could mint in their own honorifics without serious challenge from Baghdad.
The Album reference E760 designation signals an extreme rarity — catalogued but essentially unquantified in surviving numbers.