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1 Dirham - Nuh b. Wahsudan Ardabil
| Issuer | Sallarid dynasty |
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| Year | AH 355 (966 CE) |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse lettering | لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له نوح بن وهسودان [Margin]: بسم الله ضرب هذا الدرهم باردبيل سنة خمس وثلثين وثلثمائة |
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| Reverse lettering | لله محمد رسول الله المطيع لله [Margin]: محمد رسول الله أرسله بالهدى ودين الحق ليظهره على الدين كله ولو كره المشركون |
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The Sallarids — also spelled Musafirids — were a minor Iranian dynasty controlling parts of Azerbaijan and the Jibal in the mid-tenth century, perpetually squeezed between the Buyids to the south and the Hamdanids to the west. Nuh b. Wahsudan's reign represents one of the dynasty's later phases, by which point Sallarid autonomy was increasingly nominal. Ardabil served as their principal mint city and administrative center throughout the dynasty's existence.
The A#E1488 reference places this within Album's corpus of post-Abbasid regional silver, a category notoriously difficult to attribute without die study. Ardabil mint output from this decade is sparsely documented.