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1 Drachm - Abdallah ibn Tahir and Namij Jabuya Syr Darya Oghuz
| Issuer | Syr Darya Oghuz state |
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| Year | 828-845 |
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| Diameter | 24 mm |
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| Reverse script | Chorasmian |
| Reverse lettering | (Translation: Namij Jabuya) |
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The Syr Darya Oghuz occupied a complicated political position in the early ninth century — nominally within the Abbasid orbit but operating through local intermediaries who stamped their own authority onto Samanid-influenced silver. Abdallah ibn Tahir governed Khurasan from 828 to 845 as a Tahirid governor under the caliphate, and his name appearing on this issue reflects the layered vassal acknowledgments common to trans-Oxus frontier coinage rather than any direct Tahirid mint operation. Namij Jabuya was a local Oghuz chieftain title, not a personal name in the conventional sense.