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1 Dirham - Sa'id b. Shu'ayb

Issuer Andaraba, City of
Year 283 AH
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Value 1 Dirham (0.7)
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Reverse script Arabic
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Edge Plain.
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Andaraba was a mint town in the Panjshir Valley, northeast of Kabul, operating under Saffarid-era authority during the late 9th century CE. The 280s AH represent a period of fractured control across Khurasan and the eastern provinces, with local governors and strongmen issuing coinage in their own names — or in the names of their superiors — as a direct assertion of administrative reach. Sa'id b. Shu'ayb is not a figure who appears prominently in the narrative chronicles, which makes this dirham one of the few material traces of his authority.