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Dinar - Faramurz
| Issuer | Kakwayhid, Emirate of |
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| Year | 1044 |
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| Value | 1 Dinar |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Faramurz ruled the Kakwayhid dynasty from his base in Isfahan following the death of his father 'Ala' al-Dawla Muhammed in 1041, but his authority was increasingly nominal. The Seljuk advance into western Iran through the 1040s systematically dismantled what remained of Buyid-era dynastic autonomy, and Faramurz's coinage — gold issues in particular — functioned as much as a political assertion as a medium of exchange. The Kakwayhids were extinct as an independent power within a decade of this coin's striking.