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1 Dirham - 'Uddat al-Dawla Abu Taghlib Nisibin
| Issuer | Hamdanids of Al-Jazira |
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| Year | 963 |
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| Reference(s) | A#750.2 |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mint | Nisibin |
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Abu Taghlib inherited control of the Hamdanid territories in al-Jazira in 967 following his father Nasir al-Dawla's prolonged conflict with his own son — a dynastic civil war that had effectively paralyzed the northern Jazira mints for years. A coin struck at Nisibin in 963 predates that succession crisis and falls within the period when Abu Taghlib held regional authority under his father's nominal rule, using his laqab 'Uddat al-Dawla before assuming full governance.
Nisibin, a former Roman frontier city on the Tigris headwaters route, retained commercial importance as a crossing point between Hamdanid and Byzantine-contested territory throughout the 960s.