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| Emittent | Afshins of Usrushana |
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| Jahr | 892 |
| Typ | Standard circulation coin |
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| Aversbeschreibung | Central field features a multi-line Arabic Kufic inscription arranged in horizontal registers within a plain inner border. The legend, characteristic of Abbasid-influenced provincial coinage, occupies the majority of the flan. The surrounding field bears a marginal legend running along the outer rim, partially legible due to the irregular flan and wear. The overall style reflects the epigraphic hammered coinage tradition of Central Asian vassal rulers of the 9th century. |
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| Auflage | 279 (892) |
| Zusätzliche Informationen |
Usrushana was a mountainous principality in what is now Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, one of the last Central Asian domains to resist full Abbasid absorption. The Afshins were its hereditary rulers — the title itself a dynastic name rather than a personal one. The most notorious bearer was Khaydhar al-Afshin, executed in Baghdad in 840 after being tried for secretly maintaining pagan practices while nominally Muslim. Siyar b. 'Abd Allah represents a later generation of the line, issuing copper fulus well after the dynasty's political peak had passed.
By 892, Abbasid central authority was fracturing under pressure from the Saffarids and Samanids. A#1477U places this piece within a sparse series.