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1 Fals - Jahwar ibn Marrar al-'Ijli
| Issuer | Al-Rayy, City of |
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| Year | 755 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
| Reverse lettering | بسم الله / محمد / رسول / الله |
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Al-Rayy, located near modern Tehran, was one of the most productive copper-fals minting centers of the early Abbasid period, yet attribution of individual city governors' issues remains contested among Islamic numismatists. Jahwar ibn Marrar al-'Ijli governed the region during the turbulent transition years following the Abbasid revolution of 750 — a coup that swept away Umayyad administrators and installed new provincial authorities with considerable speed, leaving many local mint operations in a state of administrative flux for years afterward.
Copper fals of this period circulated almost exclusively at the hyper-local level, rarely traveling beyond a single city's markets.