1 Fals - Malik ibn Shakartegin

Malik ibn Shakartegin governed Akhsikath — a major city in the Fergana Valley, now in modern Uzbekistan — as a subordinate amir under Samanid authority during the mid-tenth century. The Samanids permitted regional governors considerable autonomy in copper coinage while maintaining tight control over silver dirhams, which is why fals issues like this one vary so substantially in type and local style across the dynasty's eastern territories. Akhsikath was one of the more prolific provincial mints for copper.