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1 Fals - Abu'l-Qasim al-Hasan al-Saghaniyan
| Issuer | Muhtajid dynasty |
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| Year | 978 |
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| Weight | 3.04 g |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a multi-line Arabic Kufic inscription arranged in horizontal registers across the central field, typical of Abbasid-influenced epigraphic coinage of the Muhtajid amirs of Saghaniyan. A marginal legend encircles the field, though portions are lost to the irregular flan edge. The flat, undecorated field and hammered technique reflect the utilitarian character of provincial copper coinage of the period, with surface pitting and granular texture consistent with prolonged circulation and burial. |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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The Muhtajids were a minor Samanid vassal dynasty controlling the Chaghaniyan region — the upper Surkhan Darya valley in what is now southern Tajikistan and northern Afghanistan. By 978, Samanid authority was visibly collapsing under pressure from the Ghaznavids and Qarakhanids, and peripheral governors like Abu'l-Qasim al-Hasan were issuing their own copper fulus partly to assert local legitimacy in the vacuum. Album's attribution 1477A places this among the rarer documented Muhtajid issues; the dynasty's coinage is so poorly represented in collections that individual die studies remain incomplete.