Dinar - al-Radi Donative type

Al-Radi bi'llah, who reigned from 934 to 940, was the last Abbasid caliph to exercise anything resembling genuine political authority before the Buyid takeover reduced his successors to ceremonial figureheads. Donative dinars of this reign were struck not for general circulation but for distribution at court — gifts to officials, soldiers, or poets — and consequently saw little to no handling wear.

The underweight fabric at 1.33 g places this well below the classical Abbasid mithqal standard of roughly 4.25 g, consistent with donative pieces intentionally struck on reduced flans.